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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I'm envisioning more of a Palestine/Israel situation.
One thing that the ancient civilizations were good at was wiping out the indigenous people when they took over a place.
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Actually, it was more likely that the conquerors relocated the natives and moved their own people into the newly taken area. The native people were integrated into other areas of the empire, sometimes as slaves, sometimes as citizens.
Wholesale slaughter is a waste of resources and enslaving an entire population takes too much manpower to oversee. That's why the Romans did it the way that they did.