Good morning, everyone. Combine it with an increasing dislike of vaccines and it sounds like a winning pair of policies. (View Post)

Language and cultural changes can willingly happen, as per Bulgarians and Slavs, the Eastern Romans becoming Greek speakers and so on. I think a modern problem with this might be that the preservatio… (View Post)

Lack of evidence doesn't prove the alternative, though. Would nascent Romano-British rulers willingly cede to new Anglo-Saxon arrivals? (View Post)

Diocletian (3rd century) changed the law so that sons had to follow fathers into a given profession. That also had a feudalistic element. Edited extra bit: unsure if this was blanket or only applied … (View Post)

One view is that soldiers settled on farms when legions were demobilised ended up selling to the wealthy, leading to massive estates. In the long term, this helped weaken the natural source of native… (View Post)