Which of the following attributes distinguishes states from chiefdoms?
A. large residences
B. a paramount ruler
C. sharp class distinctions
D. a subsistence economy based on domesticated species
E. armed conflict between competing communities
Question 2
Robert Carneiro (1970) put forth an influential theory that incorporates three factors working together instead of a single cause for state formation. These three factors are
A. warfare, environmental circumscription, and the advent of an early writing system.
B. regional trade networks, food scarcity, and warfare.
C. a strong central leadership, a uniting vision as a people, and food shortages.
D. intensive food production, population pressures, and large hydraulic works.
E. environmental circumscription or resource concentration, increasing population, and warfare.
Large size can provide a refuge from predators. While young African elephants may be vulnerable to p
Large-scale impacts of the (a) positive, and (b) negative phases of the North Atlantic Oscillation.
Portrait of a Shy Albatross. Note the large, hooked beak and nasal tubes.
The Kingsley plantation, on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida. Zephaniah Kingsley, the own
Common STIs in the United States
The presence of large areas of methane hydrate