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1
How are the rules of soccer-related to the idea of “fiction” and “imagined orders”?
They are made-up rules, that everyone abides by in order to play this game together.
2
According to Franz K., what else besides “fictions” [imagined orders] is needed to make a large-scale society function effectively?
he ability to store and handle large amounts of information.
3
Why did King Hammurabi have to “painstakingly teach his son every law” in his kingdom but bees don’t have to teach their offspring every rule of the hive?
Because the King had created a new set of laws, but the bees have had the same social order forever.
4
What are the 3 serious drawbacks of the human brain when it comes to storing & retrieving lots of information?
Limited Capacity, When you die you lose all information, it's selective so can't store all types of information.
5
What type of information did early farming societies need to keep track of? [one word answer!]
Numbers
6
What was the general name of the new “data processing system” invented to keep track of the information identified in question #5?
Writing, as that's how they stored information.
7
What group of people first invented this new data processing [or information storage] system? Where did they live?
Sumerians and lived in Mesopotamia
8
What was the specific name of the first info? storage system identified in question #7? And what two other writing systems are specified by name in the excerpt, invented by what people/where? [note: two other info. storage systems are mentioned but not by name]
Cuniform(Mesopotamia) Hieroglyphics(Egypt) Khipus(Incan)
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