Exam 3

Question 1

What are the 4 horseman

Answer 1

Mass mobilization warfare
Transformative revolution
State failure/state collapse
Pandemics

Question 2

What happens in state failure

Answer 2

Wealthy people are no longer wealthy

Question 3

Gini coefficient 1

Answer 3

perfect inequality

Question 4

Gini coefficient 0

Answer 4

perfect equality

Question 5

Charts the distribution of income

Answer 5

Lorenz curve

Question 6

The closer the curve is to the line of equality, the lower the gini coefficient is

Answer 6

lorenz curve

Question 7

Tools used by scheidel to help explain his broad theme of income inequality

Answer 7

Gini coefficient
Lorenz curve

Question 8

Based on the share of total resources held by particular segments of the population

Answer 8

Relative Inequality

Question 9

focused on the difference in the amount of resources between these segments

Answer 9

Absolute Inequality

Question 10

Does scheidel think there is an easy solution to any type of economic inequality

Answer 10

no

Question 11

What empire brought millions of conquered people back to nenevah

Answer 11

Neo-Assyrian Empire

Question 12

What empire had canal system increased agricultural production

Answer 12

Neo-Assyrian Empire

Question 13

What empire had war with the neighboring city of Umma

Answer 13

Lagash

Question 14

What was the empire where leaders took land from temples and foreclosed on farmers

Answer 14

Lagash

Question 15

What empire replaced nobles with slaves to keep them from becoming too powerful

Answer 15

Ottoman

Question 16

What empire guaranteed rights to private property in 1839

Answer 16

Ottoman

Question 17

evolution of equality (trees)

Answer 17

The biggest and strongest were always at the top
Not very equal

Question 18

Evolution of Equality (coming down)

Answer 18

new developments, such as weapons, tools, and speech, made brute strength less dominating
more equal

Question 19

Was the evolution of equality (trees) equal or not

Answer 19

not very equal

Question 20

Was the coming down from the trees equal or not

Answer 20

More equal

Question 21

Evolution of equality (early communities)

Answer 21

The earliest communities were egalitarian communities with hierarchies where people didn’t have any material posessions

Question 22

Was the evolution of equality (early communities) equal?

Answer 22

pretty equal

Question 23

Evolution of equality (horticulture)

Answer 23

Hand-planting crops meant that women were just as effective as men

Question 24

Was the evolution of equality (horticulture) equal?

Answer 24

very equal

Question 25

Land grants that divided up conquered territory between conquistadores

Answer 25

Encomiendas

Question 26

Estates under the control of despotic landlords

Answer 26

haciendas

Question 27

scavengers, took resources from one another, little or no inequality

Answer 27

Hazda

Question 28

Early example of hereditary inequality, man and children buried with elaborative and prestigious items

Answer 28

Sungir

Question 29

Favorable environment, 1/2 buried with possessions, 8 buried with impressive decorative shells

Answer 29

natufian

Question 30

Pastoralist warrior society with high inequality

Answer 30

Comanche

Question 31

Local leaders take control of temple assets, taking advantage of financial tools to take advantage of the fortuneless

Answer 31

Lagash

Question 32

Record of different sized fish bones in differing caste layers

Answer 32

Keatley Creek

Question 33

Neolithic Anatolian site of large population with little inequality

Answer 33

Catal Huyuk

Question 34

Gini coefficient for horticulturalists and hunter-gathers

Answer 34

.25-.27

Question 35

Gini coefficient for herders

Answer 35

.42

Question 36

gini coefficient for agriculturalists

Answer 36

.48

Question 37

Material wealth difference for foragers

Answer 37

.36

Question 38

Material wealth difference for all others

Answer 38

.51-.57

Question 39

Military, administrative, clerical, and at times commercial ruling classes, and then producers

Answer 39

Agrarian society

Question 40

specific harvest time and ability for long-term storage made it easier for elites to control surplus, state development related to agricultural developments

Answer 40

Importance of cereals

Question 41

A Hurrian myth translated to Hittite that describes a king pleading with a council of nobles for the freeing of indebted slaves, a god present at the meeting, nobles overpower kings will and keep enslaved.

Answer 41

Song of release

Question 42

first “true” empire, kings became “gods”, local rulers replaced by governors

Answer 42

Akkadian Kingdom

Question 43

forcible resettlement of conquered into the heartland, slaves used for large state projects, such as canals.

Answer 43

Neo-Assyrian Empire

Question 44

Dealt with human interaction and property

Answer 44

Hammurabi Laws

Question 45

poor farmers had to take out high interest loans which when they were unable to pay back resulted in the confiscation of their land.

Answer 45

Emperor Wendi

Question 46

Established expansive military mobilization programs and state monopolies on salt and iron. Under him, taxes were raised on commercial property and many large fortunes were wiped out.

Answer 46

Emperor Wudi

Question 47

Attributed with ending the slave trade and attempted to nationalize the distribution of land. Wanted to bring down the established elite.

Answer 47

Wand Mang

Question 48

ad more landlords converting freeholders into landless tenants, more solidified ruling class, and stable elite.

Answer 48

Eastern Han

Question 49

Emperor more controlling of elites

Answer 49

Western Han

Question 50

Showed less households during a time of expansion.

Answer 50

Tax registers

Question 51

Freeholders became tenants, peasant households didn’t show up on landowner’s tax registers allowing the elites to lie and pay less taxes

Answer 51

Tax registers

Question 52

Euphiletos

Answer 52

guy who killed man that cheated on wife

Question 53

eratosthenes

Answer 53

man who got killed by euphiletos