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A hypothesis Ive encountered several times online, says that 5000to4000 yrs ago European men & women supposedly treated each other somewhat equally then Proto-Indo-European speakers took over & imposed patriarchy on to western civilization for the first time. Is there Any real validity to this idea?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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