I don’t think it’s ever been common in that it was practiced by commoners. The ratio of men to women has always been such that most men can only have at most one wife. But there have been cultures such as the Aztecs and Egyptians where polygamy was practiced among the nobility.
I don’t think it’s ever been common in that it was practiced by commoners. The ratio of men to women has always been such that most men can only have at most one wife. But there have been cultures such as the Aztecs and Egyptians where polygamy was practiced among the nobility.