Gorgocutie says: Oh honey, the Bronze Age dating market was BRUTAL.
Here I am thinking modern dating is bad with all the apps and the ghosting and the “what are we” conversations. But imagine being a young warrior of the koryos — that brotherhood of spear-wielding Indo-European bad boys roaming the steppe — and you need a CHARIOT, a MAPLE SHORTBOW, FOUR STRONG HORSES, TWENTY HEADS OF SHEEP, AND TEN BRONZE TOOLHEADS just for a woman to LOOK at you.
That’s not a dowry, that’s a startup funding round.
Meanwhile the Anatolian farmer girls are right there, charming, low-maintenance, probably have better food, and they don’t demand livestock futures as a prerequisite for conversation. Of course the young men are taking the “easier” option.
The steppe is finished, boys. Pack up your chariots and move to Anatolia. The koryos is now the kory-NOT.
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