Ch. 14 terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 bartering | The exchange, from hand-to-hand, of goods or services for equivalent value. |
| city | Complex, relatively dense settlements with a degree of organizational complexity well beyond that of a village or town. Ancient sities had several thousand inhabitants, the lower limit being between 2000 and 5000 people. |
| exchange system | A system for exchanging goods and services between individuals and communities. |
| Fertile Crescent | Term coined by Egyptologist Henry Breasted in the 1920s; a broad semicircle of land in southwestern Asia that encompasses the areas of the earliest civilizations. |
| gift exchange | Exchange of goods and commodities between two parties marked by the ceremonial giving of gifts, which signifies a special relationship between the individuals involved. |
| peer-polity interaction | A state of interdependence between neighboring political units such as city-states that are equals. |
| reciprocity | Obligations between individuals or fellow kin members/groups that involve the expectation that the other party will respond when called upon. |
| redistribution | The passing out of foodstuffs, goods, or commodities by a central authority such as a chief, thereby ensuring even distribution through a community or wider group. Often used to refer to the redistribution of exotic goods traded from afar. |
| Urban Revolution | A concept of V. Gordon Childe based on the assumption that metallurgy, specialists, and food surpluses caused a revolution in human life and urban civilization. |
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