@Glossophiliac75 @akarlin88 hmmm. why didn't this happen in china then?
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Replying to @hbdchick
@hbdchick@akarlin88 In antiquity northern Europeans did not live in villages. The climate and the technology could not support a high4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Glossophiliac75
@Glossophiliac75@akarlin88 no, no, no. pre-christian northern european agricultural societies were based around the kindred or clan....3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @hbdchick
@hbdchick@akarlin88 I didn't make up the isolated homestead part. This is known from archeology.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Glossophiliac75
@Glossophiliac75@akarlin88 same thing happened in slavic societies - up until much more recently.6 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @hbdchick
@hbdchick@akarlin88 They spent less time in social settings than the denizens of Mediterranean or Mideastern villages.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Glossophiliac75
@Glossophiliac75@akarlin88 so did the mongolians.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @hbdchick
@hbdchick@akarlin88 Well, Mongolians weren't farmers at all.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Glossophiliac75
@Glossophiliac75@akarlin88 they were pastoralists. pre-christian germanics were mostly pastoralists (cattle), too.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @hbdchick
@hbdchick@akarlin88 Germanics, Slavs, Finns, Celts had a mixed farmer/pastdrialist economy. Unlike the Mongols they lived in one place.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@Glossophiliac75 @akarlin88 they lived in one place for a few years, then they moved on. that's the redistribution of the clan lands part.
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