The Rise of the State

🎯Learning target:
Explain what caused the rise of states and describe the features of a state

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When I say "the state" what things come to mind?

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Job specialization

Complex trade networks

Laws and legal codes

Military and police forces

Territorial boundaries

Gender inequality

Class divisions

Food surpluses

Writing and recordkeeping

Monumental architecture

Advanced technology

Hereditary elites

Organize these features of states into the proper theme category.

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Economic

Political

Cultural

The Rise of the State

States are created through cooperation to achieve goals that benefit the society, such as building irrigation projects or providing public safety

Integrative theories

States are created to protect territory but quickly become tools for warriors to elevate themselves into kings and conquer and exploit weaker groups

Coercive theories

In these states, it may be more difficult for the central government to enforce its power because local elites regional governments have autonomy (example: feudal Europe, India)

Decentralized States

States where the central government has great power and control. Usually have a king or emperor and a strong bureaucracy (example: China)

Centralized States

Types of States:

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Discuss with your neighbors before you answer! Is it preferable to live under a centralized state or a decentralized state? Be prepared to share your reasoning with the class.

• Decentralized State

• Centralized State

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Click the places that had decentralized states in the middle ages.

Sir Stamford Raffles, British governor of the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) in the early 1800s

"Here [in Indonesia] I am the advocate of despotism. The strong arm of power is necessary to bring men together, and to concentrate them into societies … [Indonesia] is, in great measure, peopled by innumerable petty tribes, subject to no general government … At present people are as wandering in their habits as the birds of the air, and until they are congregated and organized under something like authority, nothing can be done with them."

​Think-Pair-Share: Are states inherently coercive?

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Explain what caused the rise of states and describe the features of a state