Social satire has always been an integral part of Romero's horror, from the consumerism targeted in Dawn of the Dead to the class divisions of Land of the Dead.
It is not sufficient in a well-regulated democracy that the divisions of land be equal; they ought also to be small, as was customary among the Romans.
Biswas (1987) has coined names for the three depositional basins, namely Kachchh, Cambay and Narmada (Fig. 1b), representing the physiographic divisions of land formed due to the events of rifting during Triassic Early Jurassic, Early Cretaceous and Late Cretaceous times.
The name Manchester, though officially applied only to the metropolitan district within Greater Manchester, has been applied to other, wider divisions of land, particularly across much of the Greater Manchester county and urban area.
I'm not a scholar of this period, but I point out this history to remind the reader that the current "norm" is much less than 100 years old, and in many instances was transformed again and again after WWII, with divisions of land, independence to colonies, coups and changes of regimes many times, up to and including the present.
This minority urged upon King Kamehameha III a written constitution in 1840 and, more importantly, the Great Mahele, or division of lands, in 1848, which guaranteed private ownership of property.
Soon after this revolution, Lysander, his year expiring, went out of his office, and new ephors were chosen, who gave Leonidas assurance of safety, and cited Lysander and Mandroclidas to answer for having, contrary to law, cancelled debts, and designed a new division of lands.
And now the people pressed earnestly for an immediate division of lands; the kings also had ordered it should be done; but Agesilaus, sometimes pretending one difficulty, and sometimes another, delayed the execution, till an occasion happened to call Agis to the wars.
His enemies, therefore, alarmed by this report, lost no time in risking an attempt against him; and openly bringing back Leonidas from Tegea, re-established him in the kingdom, to which even the people, highly incensed for having been defrauded in the promised division of lands, willingly consented.
