How did the cultural developments brought on by the adoption of agriculture differ in the Americas from similar developments in Eurasia?
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A. Cultural Developments different in the Americas and Eurasia
1. Development of cities
a. Americas remained in small villages until the development of larger cities and states in 2000 B.C.E
b. In Eurasia settlements were of a scale we think of as villages rather than cities
2. Social development
a. archaeology in the Americas has unearthed early evidence of many different social rankings, economic specializations, and grossly unequal concentrations of wealth and power
b. innovations in technology and government emerged in Eurasia, without, as far as we know, any influence from outside the region
3. Large cities
a. Aspero in Peru had a system that existed to measure the labor of different groups of workers and had evidence of inherited wealth and, perhaps, power in an economy dependent on grain; had many other cities of 2000-3000 people that were trading centers where people exchanged the products of different ecosystems
b. Eurasia's cities grew around natural mineral resources such as the oldest copper mine at Rudna Glava, Tisza for copper, and Varna for gold and had evidence that rich and powerful chiefdoms could carry out ambitious building projects despite a herding way of life that required constant mobility
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