What is the State?
Tides of History
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The State Is Not an Inevitability
The state is not an inevitability imposed by turrain, geography or the relentless pull of social evolution. We don't get any closer to understanding how societies actually function and how people lived simply by asking whether they had political institutions that meet a checklist for stateness. Next time on tides of history, we're going to stick with our large scale point of view, but pointit toward a different question, the languages people wrote and spoke across the world. And around 12 hundred b c, what we know about them and how they got there?
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