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Why Seize Power or Conquer & Expand Territories? |
-Desire for resources: land, water, wealth in tribute, manpower. Like egyptian expansion south in nubia - control of gold mines -Conversion to religion happened with christianity and island 3rd - 9C ad -Individual desiring dominance |
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How to Seize power & expand teritory? |
Military Conquest -More advance technology like the 2 wheel chariot of hyksos. Neo Assyrian professional army & seige warfare. Greek hoplite warfare. Philip II using spikes, roman army -Strong central control, Sasanian vs Parthian Diplomatic means -Amarna letters and treaties like marriages of phillip II, new kingdom egypt and hittite exchanging letters |
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How to Keep power? |
Through force -Crushing rebellion/dissent -Deporting population Peacefully -Diplomacy again, marriages, alliances, like neo assyrians making people their vassals once defeated -Establishing law and order, keeping people happy -Offering protection to people, athens & sparta, rulers claim right by birth |
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Importance of adoption & adaption of culture? |
-Using adoption -Imitation to show cultural continuity like roman copying greek, doryphorus spear bearer (roman copy) |
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Why do Powers fail? |
External threat Internal problems: -Weakening of central control, weak pharaoh -Strong rival claims, competition amongst elite -drought -overextension of territory - 1st C roman republic |
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Experession of status & Power |
-Physical dominance and strength is when ruler is bigger then the enemy, big statues -Through expensive monument for burials -Monuments of victory (parthenom temple, arch of constantine, neo-assyrian palace reliefs, trajan's column) -Ruler associates with god, egyptian pharaoh, alexander the great |
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Importance of Religion? |
-As a statement of support (divine support) -Statement of power & wealth -As a mean of making statements of power socially acceptable -Unifying power, like the monotheistic religion of islam spread in arabian and the ideology of the one true god made people band together |
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Networks & communication ? |
-Spread of people by land and sea, and territories -Spread of goods |
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Different types of evidences? |
Writing sources -Administrative records, biographies (achievement, victory, list of ruler) -Law codes -Religious hymes -Myth Unwritten (archeology) -Structures, houses, temples -Artefacts: Pottery & sculpture |
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Development of Writting? |
-Egypt 3100 bc hieroglyph of ideagrams phonograms and determinatives then in mesopotamia early dynastic period clay token, pictograms of drawing then phonograms, then finally cuneiforms. Minoan crete, linear A, syllabic, then greece's adaption linear B -Phoenician made the alphabet 1500 bc How it was studied -Rosetta stone & Darius 1 inscription and behistun relief |
