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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 1751165" data-attributes="member: 893"><p>Terrorisem is a terribly ill defined word praticularly in a quasi medeval setting where little or no distinction would be made between civilians and combatants.  It was concidered common practice to slash and burn crops, wipe towns off the map and all maner of other nasty things.  Unconventional warfare was also almost unheard of.  Remember up untill the late 18th century nationalisem which is the root cause of most terrorist acts today simply didn't exist.  There wasn't much point in fighting your opressor since chances were your opressor lived across the continant and couldn't really care less if you set fire to a village or burned a few crops.  Remember all of europe was devided between a half dozen or so royal families who in the case of the Hapsburgs for example held most of Eastern Europe.  Do you really think they could care less if a bunch of Romanian farmers were angry that they were being ruled from Vienna?  No.  Would the aformentioned farmers have the means to get to Vienna and either have their grivances heard or to set fire to the city?  No.  Your average pesant traveled less than 20 miles from his home over the course of his entire life.  I know people who's commutes are longer than that.  If two states or even provinces or duchies or whatever within a state went to war with each other then the peasants were usually caught in the middle but the higher ups couldn't honestly care less if the pesantry lived each day in absolute fear for their lives.  Fear of terrorisem even if it did exist would probably rank pretty low on their list of fears of famine, desease, wild animals, war, witches, Satan, faries, bandits, injury, and all the other factors that cheerfully made the average life expecancy of the 3rd estate somewhere around the ripe old age of 35.  If they heard stories about bad men with torches burning crops and murdering villagers their responce would probably be something like; "You mean we're at war again?  Who's side is killing us?"</p></blockquote><p></p>

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