What do we mean by the term "the ecology of civilization"? What role did it play in the rise and, in some cases, instability and decline of ancient states and civilizations?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but correct responses should include: The ecology of civilization, or this ambitious interaction of people with their environment describes a society that, for good or ill, engages ambitiously with its environment, seeking to remodel the rest of nature to suit human purposes. The great river valleys were large, continuous areas of fertile, easily worked soil, and for farming societies, exploitable land is the most basic resource of all. The vast collective efforts required for irrigation, storage, and monumental building left huge classes of people oppressed and resentful of elites. As a result of these and other stresses, beginning around 1500 B.C.E., transformation or collapse threatened.
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a. Rome. b. Cappadocia. c. Armenia. d. Arabia.
The large slave rebellion that began in Southampton, Virginia, in 1831 under the leadership of a Baptist lay minister was known as the
a. Nat Turner Revolt. b. Denmark Vesey Revolt. c. Swamplands Revolt. d. Gullah Revolt. e. Southampton Revolt.
Sending American ground troops into Cambodia in 1970 resulted in
a. an increase in the power of the Khmer Rouge, the Cambodian Communists. b. a brief escalation of protest in the United States. c. the deaths of students at Kent State University and Jackson State College. d. the repeal of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. e. all of these choices.
Analyze the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi Party.
What will be an ideal response?