hey there welcome to life noggin have
you ever loved someone so much you
wanted to marry them I haven't yet but
that might be because I'm in animation
when and why did humans decide they
wanted to stay together forever we're
gonna discuss that and more right now
let's get started
marriage is actually a concept so old
that it predates recorded history in
ancient times the two being wet often
had no say in who they were going to
marry families would use marriage as a
way to form an alliance between other
families marriage was taken very
seriously often having to do with money
and/or land rather than love and emotion
this would be the case for a long time
up until the 18th century
the Industrial Revolution played a huge
role in marrying for love with the rise
of the middle class in the 19th century
men would be able to work to afford a
marriage they got to choose a spouse
without having to worry about land or
parental approval arranged marriages
aren't completely out of the picture
today though many Indian families
arranged men for their daughters to
marry and vice versa now let's talk
about different types of marriages
polygamy or marrying multiple people is
something that was very popular in the
past some men back in biblical times
would have upwards of a thousand wives I
can't even remember that many names
monogamy or marrying one person didn't
really become the norm until the 9th
century same-sex marriage can be dated
back to the beginning of the Roman
Empire and that is way back in the day
in 2001 the Netherlands was the first
country to officially legalize same-sex
marriage
Belgium followed suit in 2003 and Spain
and Canada shortly after in 2005 America
is still running on a state-by-state
basis when it comes to recognizing
same-sex marriage and at the time of
this video being uploaded the current
number of states allowing it is 32 now
when you think marriages you might first
think about wedding rings but where does
the whole engagement ring tradition come
from well there are a lot of traditions
from many cultures that brought this
norm about ancient Egyptians were buried
wearing rings on the third finger
their left hand this finger was thought
to be connected by a vein to their heart
one of the first recorded uses of a
traditional engagement ring was in 1477
Archduke Maximilian of Austria proposed
to marry of Burgundy with a diamond ring
engagement rings in America wouldn't
become popular until the 1930s at the
time one diamond company boosted sales
in America by having celebrity sport the
shiny jewelry and by 1965 80% of brides
were showing off their new rock or
mineral really are you married would you
ever want to get married who would you
want to marry okay that's enough
marriage talk I don't want to scare you
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