should I do an article compare/contrast-ing merovingian/carolingian francia with the ideal of ancapistan
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however doing so was for good reason widely considered unwise. the clan-bond is what protected you from predation in absence of "public order"
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also fun fact, gallo-romans being subject peoples were made to pay tax, but franks were exempt. as fighting men, they paid their dues to their leader in blood
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this created a powerful association of taxpaying with servility. by the carolingian era there was no taxation at all, would remain so until the hundred years
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