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Because if there are many people there has to be a lot of food 

2. 2:00 What was the “secondary products revolution” and why was it so important to the spread of agriculture and the growth of cities and states?

Use of domestic animals as it helped in growing more crops 

3. 3:34 What is an agrarian civilization?

It is a civilisation which is depended on farming and in helps.

4. 3:50 Where did the first agrarian societies develop?

They developed in the Nile valley 5000 years ago.

5. 5:02 Why does David Christian say that "surpluses" are the key to cities?

As if it rains and you can’t grow crops then all your surpluses food comes in handy

6. 5:30 Why does Christian argue that cities needed a "coordinating mechanism"?

As if people who do poetry need to sell in the market and army needs government to hire them.

7. 7:22 What are the characteristics that all agrarian civilizations share?

They use farming as there main job

All had big cities and they all have monuments and religious temples

They had rulers, hierarchy and taxes.

1. 0:55 Why does David Christian claim that increasing complexity depends on agriculture?
- Complexity increases as population increases and they need more resources.
2. 2:00 What was the “secondary products revolution” and why was it so important to the spread of agriculture and the growth of cities and states?
Some societies started using domestic animals for their fur, ones for transport or plowing. This is important as they need to store or keep the animals with them as well, so the land will fall short and increase.

3. 3:34 What is an agrarian civilization?
Agrarian societies depend on farming and eventually become more complex.

4. 3:50 Where did the first agrarian societies develop?
The first agrarian society was formed in Mesopotamia and Nile Valley.

5. 5:02 Why does David Christian say that "surpluses" are the key to cities?
He says that because every society or city need resources, when you need resources you need extra resources. They need to store those resources.

6. 5:30 Why does Christian argue that cities needed a "coordinating mechanism"?
They need a coordinating mechanism because eg, a potter must have a place where he sells his pots or the people who makes things need it as well. They can have all of it in one place like a market.
7. 7:22 What are the characteristics that all agrarian civilizations share?
All of them have languages. They live in valleys. They are complex. They started writing and eventually turned into literatures.

2.  Secondary products revolution is important because, that is when people started more productive ways of agriculture and farming.

1. 1. Complexity continued to increase as the population continued to grow. Because more people means more resources. More populations add complexity, but  you need more food resources to feed a large population.

7. All agrarian civils were different. Different languages religions, people. But some large things they had in common was that they were big cities. They all had something big part of them, pyramids,temples, palaces. Thayer all had people in charge, rulers, hierarchies.

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