الاسلام السني دمر الكويت علي كلام علماء الاثار

 دراسة أنثروبولوجيية جديدة لعِدّة مواقع آثارية مكسيكية تَعُودُ إلى 700 قبل الميلاد أظَهرتْ بعدم مصداقية لاعتقا ساد  لأمد طويل بأن كان الدينِ سببا لتوحيد مجتمعاتَ الدول القديمة 

في الحقيقة، يعتقد علماء الباحثون مِنْ جامعةِ كولورادو وجامعة وسط فلوريدا بأن  لَرُبَما كان لها تأثيرا معاكسا .

بعد عدة  سَنَوات مِنْ البحث الميداني  في وادي ريو Verde وفالي Oaxaca على ساحلِ المحيط الهادي المكسيك، اكتشف الأستاذ  آرثر  جويس والأستاذه المساعدة  ساره باربر بأن  الطقوسِ الدينيةِ ساعدة لاقامة علاقات قوية بين الجاليات علي نطاقق ضييق مما سببت بتأخير تطويرَ المؤسساتِ الرسميةِ الكبي

The Independent

 

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Religious conflict has been dividing human society for more than 2,000 ye

ars, scientists say. 

A new anthropological study of several Mexican archaeological sites dating back to 700BC has appeared to contradict a long-held belief that religion united early state societies. 

In fact, researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of Central Florida believe it may have had the opposite effect. 

After several years of field research in the Rio Verde valley and the Valley of Oaxaca on Mexico’s Pacific coast, Professor Arthur A.Joyce and Associate Professor Sarah Barber found that local religious rituals helped to forge strong small scale community links which delayed the development of large state institutions. 

In the period they were studying - from approximately 700BC to 250AD - they found elites came to dominate religious life and controlled the connection between communities and their gods - leading to conflict with traditional community leaders. 

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This eventually lead to the formation of a regional state with the hilltop city of Monte Albán as its capital.

The religious conflict in the lower Rio Verde valley eventually lead to the quick decline of regional power centres with temples grand temples being built by 100AD only to be abandoned a century later.

Professor Joyce from the University of Colorado said: “In both the Valley of Oaxaca and the Lower Río Verde Valley, religion was important in the formation and history of early cities and states, but in vastly different ways. 

“Given the role of religion in social life and politics today, that shouldn't be too surprising.”