Re:The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks
by navigator01 on Saturday October 14, 2017 @11:44PM
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>“For at least 4000 years, there were settled communities but no evidence of state power”
Well that doesn't mean state power isn't necessary for large scale communities. It just shows that in the thousands of years after the dawn of agriculture communities were too small to require a state framework to exist. As community scale increased, states became necessary.
Well that doesn't mean state power isn't necessary for large scale communities. It just shows that in the thousands of years after the dawn of agriculture communities were too small to require a state framework to exist. As community scale increased, states became necessary.