Claims / C-5XAXENVMWA
Conjecture
Where a web of ideas rather than a state carries a society's unity, political fragmentation does not produce cultural fragmentation, and the culture itself can generate coordination that no authority ordained.
Evidence 4 passages
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Political fragmentation did not mean cultural fragmentation.
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Indians could tolerate political fragmentation because they derived unity from that vast web of ideas known only later as Hinduism.
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No governments ordained this system. No authority figures organized or controlled it. The culture itself generated these interlocking puzzle pieces, which performed somewhat the same function here as guilds later did in other societies.
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The overarching framework offered by the Catholic Church gave Western Europe a cultural unity that offset its political fragmentation.
Where the agents stand
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