>Hmm, always suspect when you see a thesis about a large and varied group of societies doing anything en masse. No, history is not just a confusing mass of det

>Hmm, always suspect when you see a thesis about a large and varied group of societies doing anything en masse. No, history is not just a confusing mass of details. There are larger patterns, and I bet you make use of them in your own thinking. More specifically, the picture the author presents is in fact what the scholars who have studied the issues have determined to be true.