Joseph Henrich
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 25 May
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So that's how you get rid of the tribes, but you need a world religion to do that.
Right.
Yeah.
No.
So I think the Roman Empire plays a big role because, for example, there were Roman roads in parts of Europe which allow people to flow.
And you have communities which were part of Rome and relatively sophisticated.
Now, they go into a bit of decline, but there's still the memory of the empire.
So Charlemagne wants to be crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800, even though there's not very much left of it.
Yeah.
But it was still, you know, an ideal.
And that Carolingian empire actually had real effects because they worked with the pope in order to enforce a lot of the marriage and family program.
And the Carolingians had their own agenda because they were trying to use these marriage and family practices to weaken some of the other aristocratic families.
But they had the religious tools that they could put to work.
And if you didn't have those religious beliefs, then you couldn't put them to work.
Well, I've never actually focused on that.
I mean, I guess my immediate reaction was there must be a better way to transmit the knowledge than the whole conquest.
And population decline, spreading disease and stuff.
So certainly it could have been done better.
Right.
Yeah.
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