Stonehenge was built on solstice axis, dig confirms

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36. Actually, that skit misses a problem

It needed someone to be dragged in front of the Ruler, and when the Ruler sentence him to death, he responds with "Who is going to plant your crop next year and feed these "loyal" followers of yours?" The Ruler then realized he is as dependent on the farmer as the farmer is on him he has to leave the farmer go. No farmer, no food and his men leave him in search of food.

Such rulers came to power because they knew who they could kill and who they could not kill. Upper crusts could be replaced by other cut throats, peasants were hard to find (and if you were to harsh on them hard to keep, the neighboring ruler would gladly take in a new peasants and over up where that peasant came from. In the Dark Ages peasants were in short supply for their options had increased. Walking down the road could get them a better deal then they had at home. In Roman days that option did not exist for the Estates often ran for miles and the owners were all inter-related (They tended to marry each other's cousins), In the Dark ages the estates were smaller and the Church had adopted the concept that you could NOT marry your cousin. One side affect of this is neighbors were more likely NOT to be related and thus slower to turn an escaped peasants over to the peasant's master.

This was one of the reason Feudalism of the Dark Ages worked, it was always a two way street. Rulers needed peasants to work the fields so the ruler could tax the peasants and get food for themselves, their family, their henchmen and their troops. killing off the peasants was never a good thing to do if you wanted to rule that area,