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When did Mediterranean armies switch from the extremely brutal, ancient Roman tactic of enslaving half and killing half of the people they conquered, to later only killing the actual soldiers and lords who were fighting them, leaving peasants and merchants to live as they did before?

by /u/pineapple3000 in /r/AskHistorians

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