Civilized is such an overloaded term. What you and other commenters are lamenting is a lack of human rights, not a lack of civilization. We often take human rig

Civilized is such an overloaded term. What you and other commenters are lamenting is a lack of human rights, not a lack of civilization. We often take human rights for granted, but in antiquity (less so in the Middle ages) the only rights, that you could possess, were by virtue of your citizenship.