"elite status was passed down through the maternal line from 800-1130AD."
I wonder what the US will be like 330 years after giving women the right to vote.
On the current trajectory, The United States will not exist and historians will debate the stupidity of the people who passed the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments ... and the greater stupidity of the people who only managed to repeal 18.