Feasting model
(noun)
The theory that displays of power through feasting drove agricultural technology.
Examples of Feasting model in the following topics:
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The Neolithic Revolution
- The Feasting model by Brian Hayden suggests that agriculture was driven by ostentatious displays of power, such as giving feasts, to exert dominance.
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The Nazca
- People from across the Nazca region most likely gathered in Cahuachi during specific times of the year to feast and make offerings.
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The Aztec in the Colonial Period
- Alvarado allowed a significant Aztec feast to be celebrated in Tenochtitlan and on the pattern of the earlier massacre in Cholula, closed off the square and massacred the celebrating Aztec noblemen.
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The Classical Period of the Maya
- The underworld, the cosmos, and the great tree of life at the center of the world all played their part in how buildings were built and when feasts or sacrifices were practiced.
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Trade and Commerce
- The market place at Bridgnorth, one of many medieval English towns to be granted the right to hold fairs, in this case annually on the feast of the Translation of St.
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Odoacer and the Fall of Rome
- Theoderic had plotted to have a group of his followers kill Odoacer while the two kings were feasting together in the imperial palace of Honorius "Ad Laurentum" ("At the Laurel Grove"); when this plan went astray, Theoderic drew his sword and struck Odoacer on the collarbone.
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The Last Julio-Claudian Emperors
- Very quickly thereafter, he proceeded to bankrupt the imperial treasury by throwing a series of feasts, banquets, and triumphal parades.
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The French Wars of Religion
- The massacre began in the night of 23 August 1572 (the eve of the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle), two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots.
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Daily Medieval Life
- Church feasts marked sowing and reaping days and occasions when peasant and lord could rest from their labors.
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Astronomy
- Copernican heliocentrism is the name given to the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543.
- The Copernican model departed from the Ptolemaic system that prevailed in Western culture for centuries, placing Earth at the center of the Universe.
- However, Tycho challenged the Aristotelian model when he observed a comet that went through the region of the planets.
- The book described his model that used Pythagorean mathematics and the five Platonic solids to explain the number of planets, their proportions, and their order.
- Heliocentric model of the solar system, Nicolas Copernicus, De revolutionibus, p. 9, from an original edition, currently at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland.