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Roman legionaries butchering a Germanic village (lemmy.world)

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Such cross-border raids were a common during the first ~300 years of the Roman Empire, assaulting hostile Germanic chieftains or supporting Germanic chieftains allied to Rome. Distinction between combatant and noncombatant was rarely made.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Barbarism is only a stone's throw in our past.

Let's hope that stone wasn't a boomerang...