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Old 05-07-09, 09:25 AM   #175
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Originally Posted by August View Post
"Commercial reasons" "Feeding the masses"; both ways of describing overpopulation. Armies and war have always been the best way of trimming the numbers of extra males in a population.
Vanquished foes would send stuff and things to the victors by way of tribute such as grain as in the case of Rome.

There was no mass sending of citizens to the defeated lands in fact it was the opposite, Slaves were sent back to the homeland so I still dont buy the overpopulation thing
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