1) Actually it existed long before that. The Investiture Controversy.....
2) I said that religion and culture were the same, which they were. The idea that individual ethnicities had cultures on their own is at the extremely earliest in the Napoleonic Wars....
Re: Small specious quibbles.
2) I said that religion and culture were the same, which they were. The idea that individual ethnicities had cultures on their own is at the extremely earliest in the Napoleonic Wars....