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Social power through violence, knowledge or charisma

Teotihuacan vs Maya schismogenesis

3000 years of flirting with farming

How according to Mauss preagricultural humans were not isolated islands but were part of a broad culture exchanges.

Origin of private property through the Sacred rites? bit far-fetched

The Calusa chief was comparable to the kings of Europe, powerful and divine, with an array of aristocratic nobles and priests. This was in a society which hadn't had agriculture as a means of subsistence.

Myth that Infant protoagri societies could not achieve the feat that agricultural societies of Iraq and Harrapa did. [Poverty Point Heritage Site points to excellence in Geometry and Planning by Thousands]

4)The origins of God? Was there a society in the past which was godless? Why is god/heaven ubiquitous in every society?
-Why adopt farming?

1)origin of the state, historically which were the first states? 2)how is liberty connected to equality, or how wealth can be appropriated to gain power 3)Rousseau and Adam Smith’s view of material subsistence being of most value. Equality is what societies value the most: it can be knowledge, wealth or proximity to God. 18th century Enlightenment- materialism.

Rather than duality of earlier societies being simple or complex/stratified, there existed seasonal dualism where hierarchies changed with months or seasons. Earlier humans were as much as political conscious as us.

Turgot's inequality as a necessary evil and Rousseau's evolutionary history model.

The most eloquent Kandiaronk

How the ideas of Enlightenment lay in the dialogue between European and Native American discourse over liberty.