They became known as the Shiites, and they rejected the elders of the community that were selected by the noble tribe of Koresh(ph) in Mecca.

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In both, a self-reliant frontiersman typically served as a bridge between wild nature and community, often demonstrating that for all the gains civilization brought, something noble and pure was being lost.

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