However, as I said in the preceding e-mail, I'm accepting no more messages unless they include specific reference to the World before 1500. Sarah's comment can apply in both past and present. She brings up the idea of loyalty as a binding force. It is, I think, in the ranks of the strongest bonds in history. One more bond however, is that of loyalty.
People are intensly loyal.
Whatever or Whoever it is that they believe in, they will follow through thisk and thin. Some people put a ruler as the focus of their loyalty. Others put religion in that spot. I'd say yes, in the sense that there is strength in numbers. Say you have scattered groups in relativly near proximity.