Open AccessExpansions and Contractions: World-Historical Change And The Western Sudan World-System (1200/1000 B.C. 1200/1250 A.D.)
Author(s) -
Ray Α. Κεα
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of world-systems research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1076-156X
DOI - 10.5195/jwsr.2004.286
Subject(s) - hegemony , empire , state (computer science) , formative assessment , craft , urbanization , world system , commodification , rationality , state formation , geography , ancient history , history , political science , economy , sociology , archaeology , economics , economic growth , law , pedagogy , algorithm , politics , computer science
Archaeological evidence from West Africa suggests a process of relatively autochthonous state formation involving unusual forms of urbanization, horse warrior aristocracies, craft status groups and commodified trade networks organized by merchant-scholars. The emergenceof a West African state system played a generative role in the world-historical development of universal rationality in Western Afroeurasia, as well as in the intensification of empire formation and monetary integration in the formative era before the rise of European hegemony