as if you knew anything about why polygamy used to be accept you would realize what a crock of S(*T your talking about.
In short in years gone by polygamy was used to ensure bloodline. It's why when you spout your so called facts the Rulers you mention come up as having more than one wife. People tend to forget that in bygone eras that it was once the duty of the ruler to lead their men in battle, in other words when their country went to war the rulers would be there in the thick of it and due to this there was always the probability that they could end up dead, saying this when there sons became of age it was also expected that they would too follow their fathers into battle. Now given this it was almost impossible to be assured (given the lack of any medical advances to ascertain sex of the baby before birth)that one women could keep giving birth to a male heir in case the king and his eldest sons were killed in battle, so it was common sense to have more than one wife as this increased the chances of more male heirs, this theory spilled over into the higher class citizen (the wealthier men of society) populations as well. It was also used to boost populations in some countries as one man can impregnate as many women as he can manage were a woman can only give birth at the rate of about one child per year, interestingly enough this was the theory behind the Vikings, by killing the men and raping the women of the lands they traveled too, they tried to ensure that they not only took a village and country by force but also by the breeding out of the existing male bloodlines and thus ensuring the survival of the viking bloodline and civilization.(unfortunately this came to an end for them when they reached the America's).
In short he reason why polygamy became so abhorrent to most societies as the need for it became less as the world to a point grew smaller and became more diplomatic in it's conflict resolution, by acquiring lands through marriages and alliances, rather than blood shed and that some of these new countries were not indifferent to be rules by a woman the need for more than one wife to conceive multiple male heirs became redundant. So polygamy as most knew it became a dirty word.
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died....Chad Kroeger
as if you knew anything about why polygamy used to be accept you would realize what a crock of S(*T your talking about.
In short in years gone by polygamy was used to ensure bloodline. It's why when you spout your so called facts the Rulers you mention come up as having more than one wife. People tend to forget that in bygone eras that it was once the duty of the ruler to lead their men in battle, in other words when their country went to war the rulers would be there in the thick of it and due to this there was always the probability that they could end up dead, saying this when there sons became of age it was also expected that they would too follow their fathers into battle. Now given this it was almost impossible to be assured (given the lack of any medical advances to ascertain sex of the baby before birth)that one women could keep giving birth to a male heir in case the king and his eldest sons were killed in battle, so it was common sense to have more than one wife as this increased the chances of more male heirs, this theory spilled over into the higher class citizen (the wealthier men of society) populations as well. It was also used to boost populations in some countries as one man can impregnate as many women as he can manage were a woman can only give birth at the rate of about one child per year, interestingly enough this was the theory behind the Vikings, by killing the men and raping the women of the lands they traveled too, they tried to ensure that they not only took a village and country by force but also by the breeding out of the existing male bloodlines and thus ensuring the survival of the viking bloodline and civilization.(unfortunately this came to an end for them when they reached the America's).
In short he reason why polygamy became so abhorrent to most societies as the need for it became less as the world to a point grew smaller and became more diplomatic in it's conflict resolution, by acquiring lands through marriages and alliances, rather than blood shed and that some of these new countries were not indifferent to be rules by a woman the need for more than one wife to conceive multiple male heirs became redundant. So polygamy as most knew it became a dirty word.
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died....Chad Kroeger