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According to Emmanuel Todd, the nuclear family was developed by Roman civilization, or the idea that people should live with their nuclear family rather than their extended clans.

During the fall of Roman Empore and rise of Christianity resulted in the the nuclear family structure being split into three:

- Egalitarian structure (inheritance is split equally among siblings, influenced Latin countries)

- Absolute structure (inheritance is split based on what parents say, influenced places where Anglos come from and later settled)

- Authoritarian structure (inheritance is given all to the eldest son, influenced primitive areas in Europe)

So basically, what if the Roman Emoire never developed that family structure? how would the world look like today?

As we all know, the Catholic Church didn’t punish him for any scientific discovery (they didn’t even care about the truth of the sun and heliocentric), he was punished because he was punished because he made a lot of judgements about the pope.

Given that this is was after the Protestant Reformation, this is the stupidest thing you can do in the Catholic world.

so what if Galileo swallowed his pride and decided to keep his head down if if that means ignoring politics which was getting worse in that era?

Obviously alternate Harry would still be formed and I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of other books. But I’m curious of any unintentional side effects of removing one of the first alternate history books.

Let’s say the cotton gin isn’t invented for another century which means slavery is unprofitable and gets abolished in the early 19th century.