Yes, I mean I'm not trying to justify those events however by the standards of the day it doesn't seem particularly exceptional (of course again, we only have a

Yes, I mean I'm not trying to justify those events however by the standards of the day it doesn't seem particularly exceptional (of course again, we only have a very vague understanding). Killing the entire male population (since in such societies all males above 12-14 were effectively treated as such) wasn't that particularly exceptional. After all most Danes/Scandinavians in England seem to have survived? The Holocaust was an extreme aberration though. Something generally unthinkable by the (European) standards of the 1800s or 1900s. We can go back another ~500 and even the medieval rulers of Spain, Portugal etc. (who expelled the entire Jewish and Muslim) populations from their countries) would consider outright extermination to be extremely appalling.