Europeans domesticated warfare because the aristocracy was separate from the peasantry, and so fought for control of production and territory the way corporations (which they were) fight over customers, and industries over resources, and states over trade routes.
Source date (UTC): 2021-10-30 16:48:17 UTC
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“All of history consists of either waging war or preparing for the next war, because war is the only way of reorganizing polities and reorganizing borders.”
(Only europeans made killing civilians taboo.)
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