Porn for @Glossophiliac75 RT @hbdchick: @akarlin88 http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/renaissances/ … << just some speculation. (^_^)
@Glossophiliac75 @akarlin88 no, no, no. pre-christian northern european agricultural societies were based around the kindred or clan....
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@hbdchick@akarlin88 I didn't make up the isolated homestead part. This is known from archeology. -
@Glossophiliac75@akarlin88 same thing happened in slavic societies - up until much more recently. -
@hbdchick@akarlin88 They spent less time in social settings than the denizens of Mediterranean or Mideastern villages. -
@Glossophiliac75@akarlin88 so did the mongolians. -
@hbdchick@akarlin88 Well, Mongolians weren't farmers at all. -
@Glossophiliac75@akarlin88 they were pastoralists. pre-christian germanics were mostly pastoralists (cattle), too. -
@hbdchick@akarlin88 Germanics, Slavs, Finns, Celts had a mixed farmer/pastdrialist economy. Unlike the Mongols they lived in one place. -
@Glossophiliac75@akarlin88 germanics, i mean. the finns and slavs *really* moved on: slash-and-burn. - 4 more replies
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@hbdchick@akarlin88 in amazement that a German felt too crowded in if he could see the smoke from his closest neighbor's home from his home -
@Glossophiliac75@akarlin88 yes. but see what i said about kindreds and clans. pre-christian europeans ≠ 19th C american homesteaders.
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@hbdchick@akarlin88 I remember reading a Roman description of Germans (could have been Caesar's De Bello Gallico) where the author says,Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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