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Chapter 2225 Please vote for me!!! Please subscribe!!!

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Asgard, the royal palace.

It's still a lazy day for Thor today as he has to attend a meeting.

He sat bored on the huge throne, with his mother Frigga standing beside him. Below him were the nobles of Asgard.

Unlike the general impression that all the warriors are just hacking and slashing berserkers, Asgard has civilians. Although Asgard advocates bravery, not all warriors die in battle. Many warriors, when they are old, will use their experience and wisdom to deal with things that young warriors are unwilling and unable to deal with.

This is also an ancient tradition of the Asgardians. In the tribe, those old men who cannot go to the battlefield but have extraordinary experience are still respected, and even because of their achievements, their status is very high. They usually serve as advisors to the tribal leaders.

Today, Asgard has systematized it. Those respected ancient warriors who can never die will be worshipped as monuments by young people, so that they can continue to lead the young people. And the old people who have lost the opportunity to sacrifice gloriously on the battlefield can only continue to contribute to Asgard in this way.

Therefore, all the ministers in the palace are very old, at least four or five thousand years old.

Facing this group of old men, even a rough-minded Thor couldn't go too far.

He didn't like government affairs or endless meetings, but facing the threat of tradition and responsibility from these old men, he could only sit on the throne and continue to listen to those tedious but necessary trivialities.

In fact, Thor had no room to play in this kind of government meeting.

He didn't understand at all, but these old men still insisted on Thor's participation. Even though these things were actually handled by Frigga. In the era of Odin, Frigga had already been deeply involved in the daily affairs of Asgard. It can be said that she herself was Odin's deputy.

The queen of Asgard has never been a vase. In fact, women in Asgard have a very high status!

A long time ago, the Asgardians lived in what is now Scandinavia. Their families were relatively stable, and their family-based society was relatively orderly. As an agricultural nation, it may be difficult for us to understand the concept of "home" for a pirate nation wandering on the sea... In fact, this is a kind of discrimination. The Asgardians attach great importance to family. A stable social order and family life are like a peaceful place for the Asgardians, so when they go out (to plunder at sea), they will inevitably come back.

Therefore, as the basic unit of Asgardian society, the family is of great importance to the Asgardians.

You know, for an Asgardian, the greatest punishment is never death, but exile!

An exiled Asgardian once said: "Being away from home means being away from joy and sorrow." The importance of family life to the Asgardians is evident. A family is the smallest country, and a country is made up of millions of families. The emphasis on family concepts has also affected the consciousness of the entire Asgardian nation. As a nation whose main business is plunder and adventure, after centuries of overseas conquest, exploration and trade activities, they did not choose to drift with the flow and live a life of contentment. As a pirate nation, they resolutely chose to return to their hometown and build their own homeland!

The concept of the nuclear family has influenced the Asgardians' perception of the family. The nuclear family refers to the basic social unit composed of a husband, wife, and children. Under such a family structure, women, as an important member of the family, usually have a very clear division of labor with the men in the family. The dividing line between their respective responsibilities is the home door. The scope of their duties is that women control family affairs, while men are responsible for social groups and production activities.

After Asgard was fully formed as a society, the scope of women's rights was expanded. Because Asgard was often out at sea to plunder or fight, all family responsibilities often fell on women. During this period, women in Asgard families could participate in social activities on behalf of the family. Although women had no legal rights, they still enjoyed a relatively high status and were highly respected.

Later, as Asgard grew stronger, they communicated more frequently with the surrounding areas (mostly by robbery). Many Asgardian warriors chose to take their wives with them when they went out. During this period, their wives could not only serve as doctors and cooks, but also as participants and instigators of overseas aggression. As the colony of Norwegian pirates, Icelandic women obtained far more rights than the native Scandinavian women who stayed at home. It can be said that Asgardian women played an extremely important role in the colonization process of the Asgardians.

Of course, these days soon ended and the Asgardians were driven out of the Earth.

Later, when the interstellar age came, the status of Asgard women remained unchanged. They occupied an extremely active position in Asgard's pioneering wars. They would appear on the battlefield to encourage and urge the wounded soldiers; they would work as logistical personnel in the war of aggression and medical staff to treat the wounded.

But this does not mean that Asgardians have high rights for women... After all, Asgard is still a patriarchal society!

Since humans entered the patriarchal society, men, as the main productive force of social production, have had a higher status than women for a long time. As a unique pirate population, Asgard society needs relatively strong men to maintain the oppression of external plunder. In such a social environment, men have been taught farming and navigation knowledge since childhood, and have begun to receive training in combat skills and make weapons and tools, etc., in preparation for sea plunder after adulthood. In contrast, Asgardian women in childhood learn some cooking and textile-related crafts to prepare for future marriage. The status of the two is immediately determined. In terms of law, the Asgardians have their own parliament and laws, which stipulate the rights of men in notarization, litigation, etc. Only men can participate in battles and exercise political rights at the People's Assembly.

Although the Asgardians later legally granted women the right to inherit and divide half of the property, which at first glance seemed to be a great affirmation of the status of women, it was also more complicated and demanding than that of men: when inheriting property, women had a lower priority than men, that is, no matter how senior they were, they were lower than their brothers and only had priority over their father's brothers; if a married woman inherited the estate, her dowry must also be taken into account.

"Human marriage is a social system that involves not only the man and woman involved, but also other people. Therefore, the conclusion of a marriage requires the consent of others, and sometimes even requires others to arrange it, and whether the bride and groom themselves agree may become irrelevant." This passage can reflect the marriage choices of the Asgardians to a certain extent.

The marriage of Asgardians is more contractual, more focused on the matching of two families and business contracts. In this process, women have no right to choose their own marriage. This situation is still the case today.

Asgard's current situation is somewhat like a superposition of backwardness and advancement.

Of course, the so-called backwardness and advancement are actually man-made. There is no transcendent thing to determine what is advanced and what is advanced.

After all, these are rules that have evolved based on their own customs.

In fact, it cannot be said to be advanced or backward.

Before Asgardian women get married, they usually have a guardian, which is usually their father before marriage (their husband after marriage). As the core of the family, their fathers have unchallengeable authority. When participating in some important festivals and religious ceremonies, they usually bring their daughters with them, providing the families of both men and women with an accessible "marriage market". Once a suitable partner is found, the men from both families will negotiate, determine the gift and dowry, enter into a marriage contract, and prepare for the wedding.

Throughout the process, women have no right to interfere with the choices and decisions of their guardians. Even after marriage, polygamy is allowed in Asgardian society. Although the law only recognizes the sole status of the principal wife, Asgardian men can still have multiple wives and concubines, which is a male right that women cannot interfere with. Of course, this has now been abolished by the Asgardians.

Most mammals are polygamous. In the early days of human civilization, polygamy was also widely practiced in patriarchal societies. There are many reasons and hypotheses for the formation of polygamy, and the more common reasons are as follows: Private property and patriarchal society: Under the patriarchal social structure, due to the development of private property and the extension of male power, the rulers (such as slave owners and emperors) have a large number of wives and concubines, and women have fallen from the dominant position in the matriarchal clan period to the enslaved position.

Tribal wars and the increase in female slaves: Specifically, women on the defeated side of the war became wives and concubines of men on the victorious side.

The influence of the transfer system and the concubine system: The transfer system stipulates that if the husband dies young, his wife cannot marry outside the family but can only marry the deceased's brother, cousin or even the deceased's father, uncle or uncle. In this way, the man who originally had only one wife becomes a polygamous man. The concubine system refers to the system in which when a woman gets married, her sisters all follow and marry the same man. The concubine system was popular during the Spring and Autumn Period and also contributed to the phenomenon of polygamy.

In a patriarchal society, women have almost no independent economic status and property. If women have no independent economic status and property at all, and the gap between the rich and the poor among men is relatively large, men with high economic and social status may have multiple wives, while men with low economic and social status may have one wife or be single, which means that the possibility of multiple women marrying a man with high economic and social status or more wealth increases; and the average number of children born to women in polygamous marriages is relatively small compared to women in monogamous marriages.

Although there is much controversy about the origin time of polygamy and monogamy, that is, in many countries or regions, polygamy existed before monogamy, in some countries or regions, monogamy existed before polygamy, and in some countries or regions, the two systems coexisted in different civilizations during the same period.

But for the Asgardians, polygamy was initially practiced entirely because of population issues.

Before and at the beginning of the establishment of Asgard, it was a real chaos. The wars between the various tribes, between other ethnic groups, between the frost giants that ran out of the wind and snow, and between the alien creatures that ran out of unknown corners and corners never stopped.

In addition, the geographical environment of Asgard's birthplace is indeed a bit poor, so they need to plunder everywhere.

Under this kind of lifestyle and external environment, the Asgardians... strictly speaking, the Asgardian men disappeared very, very quickly!

If we don't do this, the population will not be able to keep up with the deaths.

Just like Paraguay, which forces men to marry multiple wives, and even sets "three wives" as the minimum standard, otherwise they will face legal sanctions. Paraguay is an inland country located in South America, sandwiched between Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia. The country's land area is slightly more than 40 square kilometers, which is only more than 600 square kilometers more than Yunnan Province in my country. Its population is slightly more than 430 million, and its GDP is about 1870 billion US dollars, which is a very ordinary medium-sized country. In terms of religion, Paraguayans generally believe in Catholicism, so their concept of marriage is very traditional. Like most countries in the world, they follow the system of monogamy. The key is that the Paraguayan authorities are unwilling to implement the "monogamy" marriage system-as early as , the Paraguayan authorities declared that any Paraguayan male citizen who wants to get married must marry three or more wives. If there are fewer than this number, they may face imprisonment. What kind of wonderful government is this? Any young man who is eager to "build a harem" may have to bow three times to the Paraguayan government.

The region of Paraguay was originally the territory of the Guarani and Guikuru Indian tribes. It was not until 1537 that the Spanish claimed it as a colony, and in 1811 they declared independence, thus establishing the Republic of Paraguay, which still exists today. However, independent Paraguay fully inherited one of the main drawbacks of a small country: frequent military coups. By 1862, Francisco Solano López, the most notorious warlord in Paraguayan history, rose to the pinnacle of power. Just two years later, he declared war on both Brazil and Argentina. A glance at the map will show the significance of Paraguay being at war with these two "behemoth" neighbors at the same time. In the later stages of the war, López, who refused to surrender, launched a nationwide guerrilla war, which finally ended in 1870 when López was killed. Paraguay's original population of more than 50 people was reduced to only 22, and only 2.8 adult men. The male-to-female ratio dropped to a worrying 7.8 to 1. Undoubtedly, with such a gender ratio, Paraguay has lost its normal population renewal capacity. In desperation, the Paraguayan government could only announce the implementation of "polygamy" in the same year when the war ended, in order to rapidly increase the population and even allow the legalization of sex trade. Objectively speaking, with the acquiescence of the government, after decades of recuperation, by the end of the 20s, Paraguay's male population had actually recovered almost completely. However, surprisingly, in 20, the Paraguayan government actually launched a "Chaco War" with its third neighbor, Bolivia. By the end of the war in 1932, Paraguay had lost another 1935 to 4 young and middle-aged men, and the country's population structure collapsed again, which allowed the "polygamy" law to continue to this day. It can be said that this phenomenon, known as male welfare, was actually created by the Paraguayan government itself, based on the sacrifice of a large number of young and middle-aged men. At the beginning of the bill, almost no Paraguayan men supported it, and they even said that it was completely using men as "tools". Even today, Paraguayan women have adapted to this policy, and war has been far away from Paraguay. But men still complain constantly, but the object of their complaints has changed from war to daily necessities - no matter which country, men are bound to be the main source of income for a family.

The situation in Asgard was similar before...but after Asgard developed, it was no longer necessary.

Asgardian men... don't really care. They'd rather go to war or get drunk in the longhouse!