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Just to clarify, Democracy in America isn't obscure. It's widely known as one of the best first hand accounts of the United States, it's just most people aren't interested in these types of things. People who know, know.

Cool for reading Herodotus. I also dip back into it every few years just because it's so good.

>There's exceptions where a community would protect a wife and hide her away from her husband but society wasn't very accepting of "I just don't like him anymore" when it came to divorce. Plus when you have conditions where husband and wife work every waking hour of the day, there's not a whole lot of time to think about frivolous nonsense like romantic attraction.

I don't disagree with you, but I think Nordic societies, being White, and also given the temperament of modern Scandinavians, I can see a woman being able to leave her husband if she chose. I think this freaked ibn Kaldun out when he compared it to Islamic society. I think a lot of people here think that a woman back then was like modern women now where they need to go whore it up or something, which is ridiculous.

You talk about "community" but all community was in that time was probably a dozen families. If the woman was being abused or whatever "I don't like him" reason was applicable back then, I'm sure her father, brothers, cousins, etc., would take her in and probably find her a new husband. I think you also misrepresent the era with the "work every hour of every day" mindset. These were still people and there was plenty of room for fun and romance, just like today. They probably worked less hard than we do overall, except during critical points of the year like the harvest.