“It used to be in Europe, after the Romans left, after battlin’ the Gauls, Visigoths, Huns, and Saxons, and also in other places, such as Africa, too, you’d go to war with an ‘empire’ right next to you, usually over not having enough pigs, goats, or cows to s*******r in yours, mostly from some kind of an animal plague, maybe a princess stealing away with a neighboring archduke, reports of someone having poisoned a river with dead bodies now floating your way, or rumors of ‘witches casting spells’ bein’ seen nearby, blast’em for a while in a vicious onslaught, and then, if you were victorious having killed half the enemy, including inhabitants of towns, villages, and hamlets, you were then free to torch and burn them to the ground, if you wanted to, though losing a quarter of your army, you
