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Final Review Part 1
Sumptuary laws...
How did Eastern European Elite maintain control?
Final Review Part 1
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How did Eastern European Elite maintain control?
you don't need to fix something that ain't broke, peasants love their lives
Escaped to their rural manors and left the peasants to fend for themselves
Tightened the legal system
Created more elites
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Sumptuary laws...
defined what wealthy people can't wear to distinguish them from the poor
were related to clothes, specifically high class products such as furs
reinforced social structure and separation of classes
were stricly reinforced
3
Why will transformative revolution become obsolete?
Christ will reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords
Globally connected economies
Only successful examples were communist/socialist, which have since faded
Global government
4
Uruk is one of the main cities of the Illiad (Trojan War)
False
True
5
What would you ask in Guess Who to find out the historical period of your opponent was the Medieval Climate Optimum?
Was it defined by technological innovation, improved farming methods/crops?
Was it a historical period?
Was it before the Black Death?
Did it cause a population boom?
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Where are most high equilibrium welfare system states?
Latin America (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala)
Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Poland)
Southern Europe (Italy, France, Malta)
Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Finland)
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What caused adaptations as men spread out of Africa?
new parasites
new parasites, new resources, new animals
new resources, new animals
new animals, new parasites
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Damascus
A Gate in Jerusalem
Location of Ibn Battuta's primary source
Has some really awesome folded steel
Oldest capital in the world
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How does education impact income inequality?
Education is inherently built for certain people so it just aggravates it
On an individual level it can do much but on a systemic level not really
Free collegiate education would greatly decrease the gini coefficient
Education is useless, wisdom/knowledge are found in experience not school
10
Rice agriculture in China
Easy: quickly follows millet cultivation, facilitated by calm waters
Easy: solely needed to be domesticated and seeds transported to other areas
Difficult: Yellow River disease gradient, Yanzte river chagned course
Difficult: Yellow river changed course, Yantze disease gradient
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High equilibrium welfare systems are more common when...
groups are ethnically homogenous, sharing a culture, language, and history
Governments have been destroyed and then reformed
The GDP of the countries are extremely high
Ethnically heterogeneous groups that mix cultures, histories, and languages
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Why will plagues become obsolete?
The millenium will cause everyone to die at the "age of a tree"
Humans will become genetically modified so that plagues can be eradicated
Humans will become so used to disease that its effect will shrink with time
Medicine will lessen the death toll, neutralizing the leveling effect
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Which of the following groups did not have a significant rise in labor wages due to the Plague?
Rural Unskilled Workers
Urban Skilled Workers
Nobility
Urban Unskilled Workers
14
Which answer consists of a microparasite and macroparasite
Malaria: Humans
Rabies: Covid-19
Measles: Civilization
Bunnies: Bears
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The data from the Italian Piemont was related to wages, slave possessions, property and tax returns.
False
True
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Why will state failure/state or system collapse become obsolete?
Modern economic growth
State entrenchment in society
fiscal expansion
Millenium followed by celestial glory!
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Match the PS Author with the correct state
Hammurabi: Babylon
Mursili II: Egypt
Pulisa: Mycenea
Pericles: Hittites
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How did the Mamluks maintain control?
Killed EVERYONE, muahahaha
Controlled regional capital
Appeased the poor with benefits that were temporary
found solidarity in a shared ethnicity
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The Third Demographic Transition refers to what?
incorporating high equilibrium welfare systems in more countries
a general decrease in males born
A decrease in birth rates
An increase in foreign ethnic groups in a country
20
What piece of legislature was passed to control market wages and employment
The 1426 Wage Laws
The Ordinance of Laborers
The Labor Ordinance
The Ordinance of Value
21
What is a high-equilibrium welfare system?
Income differs by job but progressive taxation equalizes disposble income
Everyone is paid the same no matter what job they perform
A flat tax is redistributed to those who are the least well off
22
Which of the 4 horsemen can we expect to level inequality in the future according to Scheidel?
Plagues
Transformative Revolution
Mass Mobilization
All will be obsolete (Suck that horsemen)
23
Which Author is correctly linked to their primary source
Di Tura - Living hell, not sure if the world would continue, buried kids
John Catacuzenos IV - trenches of dead piled like cargo ships
Boccaccio- medical journal-like, symptoms, possible causes of death
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Why will Mass mobilization become obsolete?
Focus on tech over manpower
A global government will eventually take control
NUKES!!!!!!!!!
The millenium will take effect and there will be peace on earth (Huzzah!)
25
Residential segregation relates to..
Zoning or redlining
apathy or othering of those not in your immediate vicinity (us/them)
Increase in educational funding in wealthier areas
local tax disparaties due to income in neighborhoods/communities
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What does Scheidel suppose will happen with automation and computerizatiton?
Income inequality will decrease due to people finding better paying jobs.
Income inequality will decrease because access to higher tech will increase
Income inequality will increase because people will lose their jobs
Income inequality will increase by certain countries becoming wealthier
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What does McNeill focus on related to The Plague that Scheidel deems not important enough to bring up for his argument?
Economic impact
Symptoms
Changes in other diseases
The Mongol Empire
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The plague has only come to play a couple of times namely the Black Death, Justinian Plague, and 20th Century outbreak.
False
True
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DISEASE!!!!!!!
Trypanasome: tse-tse fly
Malaria: Worms in water
Leprousy: fleas
Schistosomaisis: Mosquito borne
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Which georgraphic regions were able to maintain control of market wages in spite of the Black Death?
Eastern Europe
Mamluk Egypt
Mongol China
Aztec Empire
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Societal systems that come about in the Neolithic Revolution
Pastoralism, Chiefdoms
hunter-gatherers, agricultural villages
Cities, pastoralism
Chiefdoms, Cities
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Why was there leveling in Western Europe during the Black Death?
Shortage of manpower for land available
States failed to suppress pressures on the market wages
Resurgence of the plague (I'm back!! -> death, death, death)
Cathlic Church failed to meet the emotional needs of the populace
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Schistosomaisis was more common where?
Yellow River, Nile
Euphrates, Amazon
Yellow River, Indus River
Nile, Indus River
