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"Good" King Asoka, who conquered and burned his way across India, killing hundreds of thousands, before converting to Buddhism? In the same era that the Romans
by douche 10y ago
"Good" King Asoka, who conquered and burned his way across India, killing hundreds of thousands, before converting to Buddhism? In the same era that the Romans were depopulating the large fauna of North Africa, Europe and the Middle East to water the sands of the arena with their blood, and the Han Dynasty was reshaping the landscape of central China with massive irrigation projects? I think you need to try again...
Not that we were any better before we settled down as agriculturalists. Within a relative eyeblink of the first humans crossing the Bering land bridge into North America, virtually all of the large mammals went extinct in short order, and that was when we were still hunting with Clovis points on the end of a stick.