Multiple Choice
Robert Carneiro (1970) put forth an influential theory that incorporates three factors working together instead of a single cause for state formation. These three factors are
A) a strong central leadership, a uniting vision as a people, and food shortages.
B) environmental circumscription or resource concentration, increasing population, and warfare.
C) regional trade networks, food scarcity, and warfare.
D) intensive food production, population pressures, and large hydraulic works.
E) warfare, environmental circumscription, and the advent of an early writing system.
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