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10,000 word long-take I wrote on the history of female warriors, North European human Sacrifice rituals, Girardian mimetic selection, and the incompatibility of the west's current conceptions of Freedom and women's liberation.
What occured in the forests of Germany and on the Eurasian steppe for 1000s of years was one of the most extreme experiments in selective breeding and selective killing practised anywhere on earth. The Aztec and Maya were the only ones with a ritual breeding/killing program so extreme
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The pressures that sent trade missions West and South were the result of Christian failures to retake Eastern territories and reopen trade routes going East.
It's a more edge case analogy, but I do think it's an interesting dynamic to think about.
But literal elite overproduction in Iberia played a huge role as well. Castile, Aragon and Portugal had too many nobles and too little land to support them. Invading Morocco was their original plan, but the rulers were on the lookout for additional outlets of this pent-up power, so they would sponsor various half-crazy proposals to sail out there and find something worth invading.
Oh there are a number of factors to be considered. But there was a definite dynamic of losing control of the Mediterranean trade and seeking alternatives.
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