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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Occassionaly get it wrong... and nuke a city full of civilians.
About half the Armies in the past that cross my mind never killed any civlians. The only ones that really did were the Vikings, Mongols, Huns, and other barbarian hordes.
Most of ancient Greece, then Rome, also China, the Crusaders; they all believed it wrong to kill the innocent. I'm sure you'll go find some stories where I'm "wrong", point is, if you look at history, it was a shitload more chival than today. Leaders would meet face to face, they'd abide by rules of warfare, allow losers to collect their dead. All things like this.
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Ummm what? The Greeks are known for taking slaves and sacking cities in Persia during Alexander the Great's trip East. The city of Tyre for example...
The taking of slaves amongst the Romans was common too if I remember correctly. The most famous "war crime" of the time was committed by the Romans when they "salted the Earth" (they literally spread salt over all the fertile land.. and it's where this saying comes from) of Carthage so that crops could no longer be grown in or around the city and took most of the city as slaves. It's described as one of the most spiteful and disgusting atrocities committed in the Ancient world!!! (During the rise of Rome, Rome and Carthage were like two superpowers of the ancient world... a power struggle that the Romans eventually won).
I don't know anything about the Crusades or China... though the reputation of the Crusaders is not a favourable one. After all they sought to spread Christianity via the sword.