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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Well isn't that just kinda what armies did in those days? Wasn't that half the reason that people joined armies of any nation and went off on wars of conquest? To get plunder and slaves? And I guess rape's just sort of a byproduct of all that.
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Sort of. But most armies had clearer goals and were less brutal, at least according to popular history. The stories of their chaotic, terrifying raids may result more from the fact that there were only a few literate people (Christian people, of course) in the villages that were plundered, and they may have exaggerated a bit when they wrote down what happened.