/lit/ - Literature

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>what about sparta, the vikings, rome.

Didn't say that particular dichotomy (wise/strong) for classes existed everywhere, though it did in Rome. Worth noting also that amoung the Vikings Odin the wise is above Thor the strong.

>let alone the HG tribes, whose "ethnic conflict" is something you're merely speculating about

There are countless examples. Not even mentioning the ethnic conflicts in recent history, their are the conflicts between PIE and Dravidians, Bantu vs Khoisan in Aftica, Finnish vs other Scandinavian, Cro-magnon vs neanderthal (given inbreeding between them neadnerthals can't really be called a different species). Besides the cro-magnon vs neanderthal (which is simply too old), every other one of these conflicts had an aspect of "othering" the other group based on biological and linguistuc differences between the two (i.e. ethnic differences). Literally just google "ethnic conflict".

That doesn't even begin to include the religous conflicts throughout history (although I'm willing to exclude religous conflict from ethnic simply because it is such a motivating force for conflict that it practically deserves its own category). Remember also that territorial conflict between tribes is also ethnic conflict. If they weren't ethnically differentiated there wouldn't be much need for an all out group conflict.

I'd like to point out that I'm not saying class conflict hasn't been a driving force in history, I'm saying that there have been many, and that ethnic conflict has been a more major driver than class conflict.