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Technology and International Relations Reference library
Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel
The International Studies Encyclopedia
...a technical problem and solve it” ( Castells 2000 ). The invention of the wheel is an early instance of the impact of a major discovery resulting in fundamental and accelerated change. The limitless application of this principle was in many ways a watershed event. The Neolithic revolution that emerged from a cumulative process of substantive inventions provided a benchmark for analyzing societies and has been useful in showing how control over the environment resulted in the development of sophisticated institutions and societies. The growth of early...
Tactics Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...the Neolithic Age. Primitive warfare consisted of ambushes, raids, and skirmishes and relied on techniques and weapons closely associated with hunting. Although primitive warriors understood the importance of numbers, they knew little about tactical formations and less about command and control. These warriors nonetheless adopted the bow, sling, dagger, and mace between 12,000 and 8,000 b.c. and began deploying troops in column and line, firing arrows in volleys, and enveloping the flanks of an enemy line. Rough paintings of such actions from the Neolithic Age...
Ecofeminism and Global Environmental Politics Reference library
Juliann Emmons Allison
The International Studies Encyclopedia
...and valorize women and all that would be considered culturally feminine – from women’s biological capacity to bear children, to their socialization as caretakers, to their relationship-oriented habits of mind. Such cultural ecofeminists draw on archeological evidence from Neolithic Europe to argue that prehistorical agrarian societies were characteristically peaceful and identified by goddess worship ( Gimbutas 1982 ; see Eller 2001 for a key counterargument). They blame invasion from Eurasian tribes – perhaps in combination with significant population...
World System History Reference library
Robert A. Denemark
The International Studies Encyclopedia
...as opposed to change. They extended this work back through history, even suggesting that the 5,000-year world system might be a bit short term when considering certain kinds of world system processes. The antecedents of world system trade routes stretch back into the formative Neolithic period across a very wide belt of Eurasia from east to west. The Anatolian settlement of Catal Huyuk is a much studied example of an early urban community existing in the seventh millennium BCE and depending on long-distance trade connections, in this case particularly on the...
The Geography of World Cities Reference library
Raymond J. Dezzani and Christopher Chase-Dunn
The International Studies Encyclopedia
...of Location . New Haven: Yale University Press. McNeill, J.R. , and McNeill, W. (2003) The Human Web . New York: Norton. McNeill, William H. (1974) Venice the Hinge of Europe, 1081–1797 . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Mellaart, James (1967) Catal Huyuk. A Neolithic Town in Anatolia . Thames and Hudson, Ltd. New York: McGraw-Hill. Modelski, G . (2003) World Cities: 3000 to 2000 . Washington, DC: Faros 2000. Pred, Allen (1971) Large-City Interdependence and the Pre-electronic Diffusion of Innovations in the U.S. Geographical Analysis 3...
War: c. 8000 BCE - 2011
...Revolution American Revolutionary War Wars and Revolutions North America United States 1777 1777 The American general Horatio Gates captures the army of General Burgoyne near Saratoga American Revolution World Encyclopedia 1 18th century American Revolution American Revolutionary War Battles Wars and Revolutions North America United States 1777 1777 The US Congress agrees the final version of the Articles of Confederation, defining the terms on which states join the Union Articles of Confederation (1781) World Encyclopedia 1 18th century American Revolution...
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