IR 210 Lecture Units II Nucleation addressed the initial insecurity that resulted from becoming sedentary Settling down led to increased social differentiation but chiefdoms were unstable Interaction Capacity II Developments in social technology Reduced interaction capacity most notably the number of languages increased Elites developed their own lingua Francas to facilitate the stillimportant although essential extra regional interaction Process II Sedentary Tribes o Military Inter Village warfare becomes common o Socio Cultural Diplomacy continued trans boundary pre religious thinking o Economic Things that could be stored were traded Chiefdoms o Military Was becomes even more significant o Economic Wealth leads to increased political stability o Socio Cultural Chiefs also use culture to establish and consolidate domination all KINDS of tools of domination are invented at this time How is this significant Look at PG 156 Midterm Interpret what does this tells us about International Relations With the establishment of an even wider And built in a larger size and more complex form Structure II Military Political Chiefdoms are too unstable for the dynamics of Neorealist anarchy to appear most notably shaping and shoving Economic Trade still isn t regularized or institutionalized into anything resembling markets It also remains to embedded in ritual for market dynamics to govern it Socio Cultural World Society eroded a bit but important precursors to an international society appeared Some big important developments Historical Human Population Graph Summary Basic Changes 5 000 Years Ago Agriculture supplants hunting and gathering Population growth takes off State supplant chiefdoms and tribes Interaction capacity increases Inside Outside distinctions between units and their environments appear Units City States and sedentary empires appear in the more populous and wealthier pre international zones In steppe and desert regions nomadic tribes and non sedentary empires appear Units What is a State Think about it maybe in midterm States definition are coercion wielding organizations that are distinct from households and kinship groups and that exercise clear priority in some respects over all other organizations within substantial territories States seek political autonomy from other to varying degrees and to an extent are willing to go to war to preserve it Charles Tilly Units City States
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