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I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, As our world has slowly shifted from feudal kingdom-based authorities to democratic nation states with elected officials, the issue of land reform

has been ever present.

Much of the angst that serfs and peasants experienced three centuries ago culminated in the French Revolution.

After this monumental movement, several kingdoms gradually moved toward being nation-states,

and the shift in idea of what leadership is

involved a huge rewrite of land ownership.

And over the last 250 years,

European land ownership has been rewritten

time and time again.

Over the last century it's pretty incredible what happened in Germany.

People collectively chose to re-consolidate their land after the fractalization that occurred due to the Napoleonic laws.

Wait, what are the Napoleonic laws?

Napoleon abolished the status quo where land was passed from eldest son to

eldest son and decreed that land would be split equally between all sons,

not realizing that a few generations later, due to exponential family growth, there would not be enough land

to go around.

By the early 20th century, the problem festered.

People own tiny vineyard sub-parcels across long stretches of land.

Around this time, affected regions began to discuss the possibilities of pooling their land

and redistributing vineyards into more cohesive units.

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