Abstract

Settled as distinct from nomadic pre-industrial societies were (and those which survive still are) characterized by an agricultural technology based on the cultivation of crops and the domestication of animals and the many crafts related to these activities. They depended on a favourable habitat and a stable social order which guaranteed the regular performance of the required cycle of activities year by year. However stratified they might become relations between strata were prescribed in binding sets of rights and obligations.

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