This enabled them to pass their private property on to their male heirs. Europeans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels became enthusiastic about Morgan’s ideas in Ancient Society. Engels wrote about the...

This enabled them to pass their private property on to their male heirs. Europeans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels became enthusiastic about Morgan’s ideas in Ancient Society. Engels wrote about the connection between the evolution of private property and the emergence of patriarchal societies in his book The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State in 1884.