Here it must be observed that " Matriarchate " (q.v.) is a misleading term, as is " Gynaecocracy," for the custom of deducing descent on the spindle side .
So that means that there's all these lineages that have been evolving to do something interesting or wonderful or strange or different, and we literally don't know what they're doing.
And I'm really struck by how rarely stable successions were carried out in this period, how infrequent it was that a dynastic line could be set up, not just in England, but in Normandy as well across the channel.
What many people don't realize is that that is carved by a priest of Mandulas, who is still living, and he seems to be a sort of a family lineage of priests in this region.
They, they were able to get this down to, uh, you know, to, to the, to, to an, with an exactitude in terms of the genealogy of the Kings and what years that they reigned.
Instead of ancestry, lineage, or race being the key to social division, the American system has elements of a meritocracy, a system in which social mobility is based on personal merit and individual talents.
The Ghassanid line of kings likely emerged from an inter-tribal conflict north of the Arabian Peninsula around 500, a conflict fought in part to determine who would be the closest partners with Byzantine leadership.
In the whole line of Prussian kings he loved no one, not even the great Frederick — and he cared still less for the rulers under which he himself had served.