Agrarian Society
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How many people in an advanced agrarian society typically lived in urban communities? What were some of the important class groups found in urban parts of advanced agrarian societies and what were their lives like?
What was political structure like in the typical advanced agrarian society? What is the proprietary theory of the state and why is it useful for understanding advanced agrarian states?
How did religion change in advanced agrarian societies?
How did kinship affect political structures and the state in advanced agrarian societies?
“The remarkable artistic achievements of agrarian societies [e.g., the music of Bach] were a product of their harshly exploitative social system”—how?
Who were ‘the expendables’?
