Summary+Global+Integration+Mckynzi+Carter

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As the Mesopotamian and Egyptian cores and their trade networks expanded they came to have more and more direct and consequential connections with one another. Writing developed in Mesopotamia and Egypt at about the same time and there may have been a diffusion of the idea of writing in one direction or both. These were two distant core regions linked by a prestige goods network, but they had no direct political/military interaction. This synchronization of East and West Asian city growth/decline phases and the rise and fall of large states has been tested and retested and now begins to assume the status of a fact. It was a similar situation in some ways to the relationship between Mesopotamia and Egypt before 1500 BCE. Two separate agrarian core regions were trading prestige goods with one another, and much of the intervening territory was inhabited by nomadic pastoralist.Modelski began with Chandler’s compendium of urban populations and then expanded and improved the coverage using newer and more recent historical information.