In contrast, other groups, like the Irish, and later African-Americans, have pursued their quest for power largely through social organization(the Catholic and black churches, respectively) and by political conquest.

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Agricultural, Church-dominated economies were superseded by new forms of social organization--nascent nation states with central political institutions, urban, commercial economies and lay patronage of intellectual and cultural life.

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