Month: July 2021

Cultural macroevolution: Understanding the rise of large-scale complex societies in human history – Peter Turchin

Beginning
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Theory of Grains

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let’s see scott i’m breaking out on his

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uh first name a first name

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a sociologist at yale he recently

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wrote a book against the grain in which

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he proposes the theory that grains

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make states it’s a conflict theory

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because

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according to him grains

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are more easily stored and most

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importantly

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more easily are taken away expropriated
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Agriculture intensities relates to more complex societies and more government

in as agricultural intensity and as it

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turns out

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it is a very uh important predictor

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but because what happens uh is that uh

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as agriculture gets intensified

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um it enables more complex societies

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and by the way there is an um there is

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also feedback i don’t have time to talk

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about it

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but there is a feedback effect

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governance higher levels of

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governance have a positive effect on

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agricultural intensification so

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so uh strong states also um uh

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so strong states also are interested in

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increasing

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uh their resource base

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well when we plot uh governance against

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um

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agriculture because we see a very

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interesting

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uh pattern here again we see these two

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