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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

anyone who tries to claim there was any absolute standard of behavior for pre-industrial tribes like that is just doing fantasy worldbuilding

Every social organization you can think of was probably the way of life for someone out there, from patriarchy to matriarchy, communal to hierarchical

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I wonder whether there was an infantarchal society where they took direction from toddlers. I suppose they wouldn't have lasted very long if they did exist...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Pharaoh Tut was nine when he ascended to the throne, I'm sure it's happened to younger people.

Edit: John I of France reined from his birth until his death five days later. Bummer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

There was this group that had a teenager as a prophet. She ordered to sacrifice all the cattle to the gods. They all starved.

Search for Nongqawuse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

That's so ageist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Those aren't an ancient but a modern phenomenon :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

You're describing monarchies lmaooo