PPT-A History of World Societies

Ninth Edition CHAPTER 14 Europe in the Middle Ages 8001450 Copyright 2011 by BedfordSt Martins John P McKay Bennett D Hill John Buckler Patricia Buckley Ebrey . Gentile Received 13 September 2013 in revised form 3 November 2013 Accepted 6 December 2013 Published 13 December 2013 Abstract Keywords OPEN ACCESS brPage 2br Societies 2013 3 492 1 Introduction after brPage 3br Societies 2013 3 493 2 Flaw 1 Aggr History studies the development of Human Societies. What do Historians Study?. Historians study the development of human societies; in other words how groups of human beings evolved from the earliest times to the present. IB Anthropology HL. Overview. Structural Functionalism developed from the British reaction to Evolutionism, which was also a school of diffusionism. Unlike the school in America, which flourished, the British school led by W.H.R. Rivers at Cambridge University quickly died out. Anthropological Theory. Anthropological Theory . More than 2,000 societies have been described in anthropological literature. Theoretical orientation: . general attitude about how cultural phenomena are to be explained; influences what aspects of life observer focuses on. The Basics. Functionalism is mainly associated with the work of two sociologists . Emile Durkheim. 1858-1917. … and Talcott Parsons 1902-1979. Sociological theories always have to be understood in terms of the time in which they were developed. September 24, 2014. Presented by: Jude . Crasta. , AVP External. Prepared by: Pierre Cenerelli, univ. & GOV. Relations advisor. Society Act Review: Background. The Society Act is the provincial law governing the creation and basic governance of societies in British Columbia. Technological and Environmental. Transformations, to c. 600 B.C.E.. Key Concept 1.1. . Big Geography and the Peopling . of the Earth. Key . Concept 1.2. . The Neolithic Revolution and . Early Agricultural Societies. By:. Zack Vegso, . Coulter Conrad, . Amber Hausle . and Lewis Graham. The theory emerged in the 1950’s as a explanation of how the industrial societies of North . A. merica and Western Europe developed. . Periodization: How historians create time periods. Period 1 = 8000 BCE to 600 BCE. 8000 BCE = Agricultural Revolution (when we start to farm) . 600 BCE = large regional empires (Greece, Rome, China) . E. Napp. “Inner Eurasia As A Unit Of World History”. Title: “Inner Eurasia as a Unit of World History”. Written by David Christian. Published by Journal of World History, Vol. 5, No. 2. Copyright 1994 by University of Hawaii Press. Chapter 6. I. Early Societies of . MesoAmerica. Major Pre-Columbian Civilizations. Early Mesoamerican societies . 1200 BCE – 1100 CE. The . Olmecs. 1. Early Agriculture in Mesoamerica . 8000-7000bce. Movement of Bantu Speaking People into Africa south of equator. Began around 3000 B.C.E. from southeastern Nigeria and the Cameroons. Over time, 400 distinct Bantu languages developed. By 1. st. century C.E., Bantu agriculturalists occupied forest regions of equatorial Africa; some had probably reached East African coast. development of the Neolithic Revolution?. (A) Improved human nutrition resulting from enhanced hunting skills. (B) Dramatically altered weapons and warfare caused by the use of bronze technology. (C) The adoption of settled agriculture that allowed more densely populated societies. History and Anthropology. Historiography, term 1 . Antonio Gramsci, 1891-1937. ‘Prison Notebooks’ published into English in early 1970s. . He attempted to break from the economic determinism of tradition Marxist .