Europe was once the home of many tribes, consanguineous societies who owed loyalty to the group and who warred and raided right up into Medieval times.
But then something changed and over the Medieval period the Tribes were dismantled and replaced with Feudalism, without loyalties to tribe the common people were instead tied to the land and thus the landholder
The most significant factor in this seems to have been the conquest of the Western Roman Empire by Germanic tribes and more specifically the spread of holy roman catholic church.
Amongst other things the Church go rid of polygamy, discouraged adoption and banned cousin marriage, it made females property of their fathers/husbands and focussed on the primacy of the nuclear family-husband and wife, children and parents' - all designed to undermined large kinship groups and discourage kinship networks. Thirteenth-century English court rolls indicate that even cousins were grouped with non-kin for most purposes.
While we can't know f this was a deliberate strategy it probably was underpinned by greed on behalf of the Church and Nobility. By discouraging large families you reduce the number of family members who demand a share of someone’s legacy when they die. The wealth instead accumulates and can be taken by the Church or Lord.
Of course the Nobility were all for small units working their land and owing loyalty to the Landholder rather than to Kinfolk. Tribes become a problem when the Lord of the Manor is a foreign conqueror with no blood ties, but irrelevant if residence is more important than kinship.
Of course we are well aware that the Royal families of Europe do infact constitute a single tribe who have maintained the consanguineous ties even to modern times.
Anyway we get Tribalism replaced by Feudalism and then Feudalism replaced by Corporatism and the rise of the Corporate-State. So it seems that the breakdown of Tribalism lead to the development of Europe as we know it today
Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Roman Emperor, married his children to the children of his half-brother - so what if cousin marriage and tribalism had been allowed to continue and flourish in Europe, what would change?.
But then something changed and over the Medieval period the Tribes were dismantled and replaced with Feudalism, without loyalties to tribe the common people were instead tied to the land and thus the landholder
The most significant factor in this seems to have been the conquest of the Western Roman Empire by Germanic tribes and more specifically the spread of holy roman catholic church.
Amongst other things the Church go rid of polygamy, discouraged adoption and banned cousin marriage, it made females property of their fathers/husbands and focussed on the primacy of the nuclear family-husband and wife, children and parents' - all designed to undermined large kinship groups and discourage kinship networks. Thirteenth-century English court rolls indicate that even cousins were grouped with non-kin for most purposes.
While we can't know f this was a deliberate strategy it probably was underpinned by greed on behalf of the Church and Nobility. By discouraging large families you reduce the number of family members who demand a share of someone’s legacy when they die. The wealth instead accumulates and can be taken by the Church or Lord.
Of course the Nobility were all for small units working their land and owing loyalty to the Landholder rather than to Kinfolk. Tribes become a problem when the Lord of the Manor is a foreign conqueror with no blood ties, but irrelevant if residence is more important than kinship.
Of course we are well aware that the Royal families of Europe do infact constitute a single tribe who have maintained the consanguineous ties even to modern times.
Anyway we get Tribalism replaced by Feudalism and then Feudalism replaced by Corporatism and the rise of the Corporate-State. So it seems that the breakdown of Tribalism lead to the development of Europe as we know it today
Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Roman Emperor, married his children to the children of his half-brother - so what if cousin marriage and tribalism had been allowed to continue and flourish in Europe, what would change?.