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What are the three focuses of our class?
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Statebuilding
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Increased Contact and Trade
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Change and Spread of Religion
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How does population growth affect farming?
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When populations grow, less people have to be farmers.
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How does the number of people farming have to do with specialization?
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The less people farming, the more people can specialize in other fields.
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What does increased specialization allow for people?
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With more people specializing in different fields, you now have people producing a variety of different goods, which provides more goods for trade purposes.
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When there are more goods available for an area to trade, how does that impact the people?
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More trading means more money
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What is a great way to take over a religion or even a state?
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By taking the established system and making it your own, by finding a way to profit off of the established system.
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Unification makes a state stronger, what are different methods for unifying a state?
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Sharing one unified language
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Sharing one unified religion
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What is the purpose of offsetting the power of nobles?
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Nobles have access to many resources and could potentially overthrow the state
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How do you offset the power of nobles?
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Force the nobles to distribute their wealth
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Tax nobles more heavily than others
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Prevent nobles from taking positions of power
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What is the purpose of centralizing state capitals, and trade?
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Centralization of the capital helps unite a state. When the capital is too far away from the territory of the state, it is difficult to maintain control of the state.
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Centralizing trade makes it easy to transmit goods from place to place, if trade is equal distance in all directions.
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How does agricultural innovation impact population growth?
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Agricultural innovations allow for increased food production, which allows for increased population growth.
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While unifying a state helps to build its strength, restricting the people is a good way to do what?
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Piss people off, and cause a revolt against the state.
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If all the resources are with the nobles, and not with the state, then how does the state acquire resources?
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The state becomes dependent on the nobles for resources
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People of the state want what?
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Protection
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Freedom
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Social mobility
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Sustainable living
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Why is it important to offset the power of a government?
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If the government miss uses its own power, the people will revolt, and the state will fall.
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Why is it important for the government to set up a set of regulating systems on multiple levels of society?
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These systems allow the government to essentially run itself, even if the leader of a nation were to fall, there are systems in place to push the development of the nation.
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