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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 1751418" data-attributes="member: 1196">Well, the more immediate lord might have cared because it meant less income and, if it went on, made him look like he couldn't protect his lands.  I think the one reason you didn't see so much terrorism in the old days is that people back then were much more ruthless and brutal in dealing with it.  I think a medieval or ancient population under attack by terrorists would have simply started killing anyone identifiably from whatever group the terrorists were supposedly associated with, regardless of guilt or innocence and with no regard for anything approaching civil rights.  They would protect their safety by getting rid of the whole group and, hopefully, the terrorists among them.  Likewise, I think rulers faced by a group using terrorism to advance a particular cause would be perfectly willing to commit unspeakable crimes against those thought to be connected with the terrorists or their cause in any way, including things like depopulating a whole region or killing or deporting everyone of a particular region if the cause was regional or religious.  Basically, I think terrorism works these days because terrorists aren't dealing with the likes of Imperial Rome.</blockquote>