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.
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.
Being nice is probably a modern invention. It assumes a lot of things, all unrelated to personal love, family, transactions or honor. It abstracts a bunch of behaviors in a way that must feel weird to people in the past.
Today, people are taught to be nice because it’s a cultural thing, a placeholder for missing family and tribal ties that are lacking. Surely it only arose in the late 1700s and cemented by 1800s middle class