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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Gonna need to be a full on poly commune at this rate if prices keep going up.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The Roman historian Livy writing around 0 AD attests to "the rape of the Sabine Women", wherein the founders of Rome kidnapped and raped women from surrounding villages, which may just be mythological but is likely a factor in this concept being so prevalent.

As a constrast, though, Madagascar was settled by a mix of Bantu and Indonesian (Austronesian) people, and genetic analysis suggests a founding group of at least 30 women from Indonesia, who almost certainly weren't stolen from across the Indian Ocean.