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=== Other Proto-States === | === Other Proto-States === | ||
The Age of Blood drew down as rates of endemic violence declined. Orthodox historians attribute this to the {{wp|Diffusion of innovations|diffusion of norms}} that had proven advantageous to the Lawful Commonwealth outward beyond its direct sphere of influence, enabling the formation of other higher-order proto-states and the pacification of larger pockets of territory, as well as the gradual abandonment of ultraviolent practices by tribes outside of these proto-states. More critical historians question whether the Lawful Commonwealth was truly the originator of the Four Rites and Four Precepts, or merely one of many adoptor societies of constructive innovations that arose elsewhere. | The Age of Blood drew down as rates of endemic violence declined. Orthodox historians attribute this to the {{wp|Diffusion of innovations|diffusion of norms}} that had proven advantageous to the Lawful Commonwealth outward beyond its direct sphere of influence, enabling the formation of other higher-order proto-states and the pacification of larger pockets of territory, as well as the gradual abandonment of ultraviolent practices by tribes outside of these proto-states. More critical historians question whether the Lawful Commonwealth was truly the originator of the Four Rites and Four Precepts, or merely one of many adoptor societies of constructive innovations that arose elsewhere. What ''is'' certain is that multiple [prefix]lithic polities would claim the legacy of the Lawful Commonwealth, which would appear to have ceased to function as a cohesive and discrete polity at some point in the preceding centuries. | ||
=== Megalithic Societies === | === Megalithic Societies === | ||