Rule by the sword..
One of the more foolish statements you hear is "A idea cannot be killed or a people cannot be conquered!!" That is a lie. History shows from the israelites and vandals to the mongols to the Normans to the Zulus to the Reds under Stalin, that if you ruthlessly kill enough people, the ones left WILL submit. Before you go any farther, look that up. That has to be understood.
Rule by the sword WILL work; but it is expensive, you must keep many men under arms and the conquer will be hated as well as feared . If the conquer can hold on over generations and comes to be seen as the lawful ruler; control is easier, but that takes generations. The conquer like the Romans and the Normans and the Zulu etc; must be seen by the conquered people as providing "peace' that is security from a worse fate.
Over time the conquer becomes the noble or ruling class as did the Romans over the British Celts, the Saxons over the Roman Britians and the Norman over the Saxons. Indeed the right and use of arms becomes the mark of the ruler. The lord has the sword and the common person if he or she wants to keep his or her head had best remember that. .Over time people come to accept the king and noble rules becouse God wants them to. Understand that men do NOT like to think of themselves as cowards so they convince themselves or are convinced, that the gods or GOD ordered the world as it is; so submission is honorable or at least not disgraceful. "That is the way things are meant to be" ..is a very old line in history.
Until the age of gunpowder there was little the common man could do. It takes a lifetime of training to learn the sword or axe well enough to stand against knights or men at arms. It is only in the movies that a serf picks up a sword and defeats a trained knight.
Question; If you the reader, picked up a pair of gloves and stepped into the ring with a professional boxer or a trained MMA fighter' who would win?
Tomorrow:
The advent of Gunpowder and the Social Contract
One of the more foolish statements you hear is "A idea cannot be killed or a people cannot be conquered!!" That is a lie. History shows from the israelites and vandals to the mongols to the Normans to the Zulus to the Reds under Stalin, that if you ruthlessly kill enough people, the ones left WILL submit. Before you go any farther, look that up. That has to be understood.
Rule by the sword WILL work; but it is expensive, you must keep many men under arms and the conquer will be hated as well as feared . If the conquer can hold on over generations and comes to be seen as the lawful ruler; control is easier, but that takes generations. The conquer like the Romans and the Normans and the Zulu etc; must be seen by the conquered people as providing "peace' that is security from a worse fate.
Over time the conquer becomes the noble or ruling class as did the Romans over the British Celts, the Saxons over the Roman Britians and the Norman over the Saxons. Indeed the right and use of arms becomes the mark of the ruler. The lord has the sword and the common person if he or she wants to keep his or her head had best remember that. .Over time people come to accept the king and noble rules becouse God wants them to. Understand that men do NOT like to think of themselves as cowards so they convince themselves or are convinced, that the gods or GOD ordered the world as it is; so submission is honorable or at least not disgraceful. "That is the way things are meant to be" ..is a very old line in history.
Until the age of gunpowder there was little the common man could do. It takes a lifetime of training to learn the sword or axe well enough to stand against knights or men at arms. It is only in the movies that a serf picks up a sword and defeats a trained knight.
Question; If you the reader, picked up a pair of gloves and stepped into the ring with a professional boxer or a trained MMA fighter' who would win?
Tomorrow:
The advent of Gunpowder and the Social Contract
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