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-1 Post author: Chrysophylax 15 March 2014 12:27PM

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Comment author: bramflakes 15 March 2014 10:52:31PM *  2 points [-]

900s - 1100s, possibly even as early as the 800s.

http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/kinship-the-state-and-violence/

If there's any large organization you can credit for clannism (and hence violence) reduction, it might actually be the Catholic Church, because they were the ones with the biggest and earliest hardon for breaking up clans. Then again, nobody yet knows why it was the Dutch and the Anglo-Saxons that followed the Church's ideas so faithfully ...