The textbook for the class is Frameworks of World History: Networks, Hierarchies, Culture, volume one.
Your typed write-ups should be approximately 1000-1250 words in length, 1.5 line-spaced, normal margins, typed, in 12pt font. Also if you could use Word so I can edit afterward, that would be great. It’s the same prompt: The first three chapters of Frameworks build up a conceptual model of early human societies. The model consists of networks, hierarchies, and cultural frames and screens. Taking the diagram of the Agrarian Pyramid as a summary hypothesis of types of hierarchies in a state-level agrarian society, test one of the hypotheses presented against evidence from at least two of the primary sources you have read so far this semester. Compose an argumentative essay with introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion demonstrating how the reading supports or challenges the model of hierarchy hypothesized in the agrarian pyramid.
For this final draft, please use examples from societies discussed in Unit 3 and/or Unit 4 to further support your thesis.
Be sure to identify the aspect of the model you are testing, the primary source readings you are using to test the model, include a thesis statement, and provide evidence from the sources to support your thesis. Better essays will make references to specific examples from multiple primary sources.