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HIST1601 Essay Topics
  1. What common problems did the first cities and states have?
    1. Flag; flag designer; where the flag goes
      1. Leader - who/what/democratically elected gov?; residence for leader
        1. Bureaucracy to support leader - public servants; police; soldiers
          1. Taxes - accountants; sanitation/health; religion - shared belief
            1. As communities grew in size, so did managerial difficulties they faced
              1. Solution: Grant managerial power to elite groups
                1. At first this worked; but over time, elites gained control over large amounts of resources
              2. Critical transition from personal relations to impersonal power
                1. From power over things to power over people
              3. What were the major causes of the emergence of our modern form of society?
                1. Agriculture
                  1. Agriculture raises productivity to partic. degree
                    1. By grooming so intense that it eventually transforms favoured species
                      1. Transformation through early form of genetic engineering, "domestication"
                  2. Increase in population
                    1. Spurred by technological changes
                      1. These 20th c. changes supported huge pops.
                      2. Leads to rise in agricultural productivity
                        1. Increased food production
                      3. Collective learning
                        1. Humankind added another level of behaviour 250000 years ago
                          1. Our use of language and other symbols began to introduce new capacity for "collective learning"
                            1. Distinctive to humans is that they learn collectively
                        2. Innovation
                        3. What can we learn from 'Big History' that is of relevance to understanding the challenges we confront in the 21st century?
                          1. Scope of human history; long-term trends can be seen from a "stepping back" view
                            1. Trend: as global inequalities increase, resources are being consumed in ever-increasing amounts to sustain vast hierarchical structures of modern capitalist societies
                            2. History is complex
                              1. History is about context - nothing happens in isolation - events are linked
                                1. Punctuated evolution - punctuated with new ideas; we make progress and take steps forward
                                  1. It is in the nature of reality to be unpredictable
                                    1. This type of unpredictability often described as chaos
                                      1. Choas theory: billions of tiny uncertainties can accumulate through long chains of causation until they create large-scale unpredictability
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