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=== Moral Foundations Age ===
=== Moral Foundations Age ===
The next stage of moral evolution took place in early agricultural Kirav, where the mode of production was characterised by shifting cultivation of potato and other such crops by small, autarkic tribal segments.


Early agricultural Kirav. Shifting cultivation of potato and other such crops. Small, autarkic village communities.
Warfare in the sense of sustained (rather than episodic) intergroup violence and infectious disease become major facts of life. As is known from the Great Law Chant and other ancient sources, tribal warfare eventually became constant, endemic, and increasingly deadly, until the Emperors arrived to lay down [[Coscivian law|the Law]].


The Emperor shows up.
The idea of lives (Coscivian lives, at least) having intrinsic value (rather than having value only in relation to kith and kin) coalesces during this era, as do well-defined notions of law, honour, respect, and property. Social control is still exclusively shame-based, and moral-legal systems are still exclusively about maintaining social peace and mitigating inter-group conflict.
 
The idea of lives (Coscivian lives, at least) having intrinsic value (rather than having value only in relation to kith and kin) coalesces during this era. Well-defined notions of law, honour, respect, property, and other such concepts also take root. Social control is still exclusively shame-based and moral-legal systems are still exclusively about maintaining social peace and mitigating inter-group conflict.


==Reception and Evaluation==
==Reception and Evaluation==