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<blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 7976473" data-attributes="member: 16077">Yep.&nbsp; People today fail to realize that the nuclear unit in ye oldey tymes extended only to family and friends and between warlords and their warriors.&nbsp; The notion of democracy and freedom may have come about in ancient Greece, but it pretty much only applied to male citizens, with foreign males even being higher in status than Greek females.&nbsp; Athens had around 80,000 slaves - an average of 4 per household except for the poor.Ancient Rome considered legal testimony from slaves to be inadmissable unless obtained through torture, and the legions had brigades dedicated to torturing captured enemies to obtain information.The average person held very little regard for human or animal life back then - when they could die from bad food or water, from an infected hang nail, because one was unlucky enough to be in a village put to the sword by a rampaging army, or at the whim of someone of higher social standing who you may have crossed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="3catcircus, post: 7976473, member: 16077"] Yep. People today fail to realize that the nuclear unit in ye oldey tymes extended only to family and friends and between warlords and their warriors. The notion of democracy and freedom may have come about in ancient Greece, but it pretty much only applied to male citizens, with foreign males even being higher in status than Greek females. Athens had around 80,000 slaves - an average of 4 per household except for the poor. Ancient Rome considered legal testimony from slaves to be inadmissable unless obtained through torture, and the legions had brigades dedicated to torturing captured enemies to obtain information. The average person held very little regard for human or animal life back then - when they could die from bad food or water, from an infected hang nail, because one was unlucky enough to be in a village put to the sword by a rampaging army, or at the whim of someone of higher social standing who you may have crossed. [/QUOTE]

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