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1. What is the id?

Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionThe biological impulses.524/100,000/year

2. 6 Trends

The biological impulses.524/100,000/year1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionShift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats

3. What are the costs of early state rule?

1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionThe biological impulses.Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats524/100,000/year

4. What is the average annual rate of death in warfare for no state societies?

Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocratsThe biological impulses.1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights Revolution524/100,000/year

5. What does living in a civilization do to one's chances of being a victim of violence?

6. What are the rates of deaths from warfare in states?

7. Why does US have such a high murder rate?

The biological impulses.Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionBecause people took over the government before the government had convinced them to lay down arms and convinced them that it had a monopoly on the use of force. Especially in e South and West, where personal force was a point of honor.

8. What is the insight of gentle commerce?

The biological impulses.People are more valuable to you alive than dead.1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionShift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats

9. What are the rates of deaths in warfare among prehistoric anthropological sites? Comparing violent dead to overall dead.

The biological impulses.1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionShift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats15%

10. What is the superego?

11. What perpetuated Elias's Civilizing Process?

12. When did agriculture emerge?

Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocratsThe biological impulses.10,000 years ago1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights Revolution

13. What might have prompted the humanitarian revolution and its accompanying reduction in violence?

Pinker argues: The Reading Revolution. Reading is an exercise in perspective taking. Also, cities. When big groups of people gather they can discuss, learn, and overcome the free rider problem.Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocratsThe biological impulses.1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights Revolution

14. What was the white American Homicide vs the black American homicide rate?

The biological impulses.Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats4.8 vs 36.9/100,0001. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights Revolution

15. What is the availability heuristic?

16. What is the standard measure of homicide rates?

1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionShift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocratsDeaths per 100,000 people per year. This compares the number of dead per year to the population of the living.The biological impulses.

17. Two zones in which the Civilizing Process went into reverse?

Developing world & the 1960sThe biological impulses.1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionShift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats

18. Why are homicide rates higher in the South and West?

The biological impulses.They supported an HOnor culture far longer.Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights Revolution

19. What is the ego?

1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionShift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocratsIt mediates between the superego and the id.The biological impulses.

20. Once raiding and feuding are brought under control, where is the next most important reduction of violence?

Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocratsReduction of government violenceThe biological impulses.1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights Revolution

21. What were the people taught over time?

Inhibit impulses, anticipate long-term consequences, feel other people's feelingsShift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocratsThe biological impulses.1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights Revolution

22. What are the rates of deaths in warfare among contemporary hunter-gatherers?

1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights Revolution14%Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocratsThe biological impulses.

23. What were the worst state society annual losses?

The biological impulses.19th century France (Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Franco-Prussian Wars) 70/100,000/year; Germany during WWII 144/100,000/year; US during the 20th Century 3.7/100,000/year; the entire world for the 20th century for wars, genocides, purges, and man-made famines 60/100,000/year1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionShift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats

24. Was the 20th Century the bloodiest?

1. Hunter-gatherer to Agricultural: Pacification Process; 2. Feudal territories to Karge Kingdoms with centralized authority: Civilization Process; 3. The abolishment of sanctioned violence (slavery, dueling, torture, etc.): Humanitarian Revolution; 4. Nation states stopped going to war with each other: The Long Peace; 5. Decline of prganized conflicts of all kinds: The New Peace; 6. Defense of human rights on an individual scale: The Rights RevolutionThe biological impulses.It depends on how you measure. Two reasons that it likely wasn't: proportionality (how many people die per total population) and historical myopia ( we see the present most clearly).Shift from suffering from crimes to suffering from laws: tyrants, clerics, kleptocrats

25. How many governing units existed in Europe in 1400, 1600, 1800, 1953?

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