Cultural macroevolution: Understanding the rise of large-scale complex societies in human history – Peter Turchin
Beginning
https://youtu.be/IJf3hecuIAE
Theory of Grains
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0747RTP2W/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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
https://youtu.be/IJf3hecuIAE?t=769
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
https://youtu.be/IJf3hecuIAE?t=2961