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Characteristics of the Tributary Economic System

Characteristics of the Tributary Economic System

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1) The community within the state pays tribute to the king or military leaders.
2) The state controls the factors of production including accessibility to strategic
economic resources.
3) The state appropriates part of the labour and produce of its citizens.
4) The state controls production and the reproduction of the economy through its
powers of allocating and retrieving property from the community e.g. in the
form of grain, livestock.
5) The state controls the allocation of chiefdoms, appoints their administrators and
organizes the collection of tribute.
6) The state controls social reproduction of the social formation by determining the
time the youth can marry. In some cases the youth are allowed to marry only
after accomplishing certain beneficial duties to the state e.g. raiding for
livestock, capturing women and children in war, expanding the state’s territory
etc.
7) The military is used to protect the king, the kingdom, the people and the entire
state’s resources in the form of land, livestock, grain stores, water salt licks,
pastures etc.
Titany answered the question on December 8, 2021 at 07:16

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