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oliviahorn72

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on: Aug 11, 2018
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.


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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: E


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