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I've read that when Zoroastrianism was still a significant minority religion in Persia, Muslims would torture and kill their dogs in order to provoke revolts which they could then suppress and forceably convert the survivors. Is this a probable tactic and of so, was it used against other minorities?

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In 1475, all Christians were expelled from the great Genoese trading city of Caffa by the Ottomans. Was there a significant change in how the slave trade operated?

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I've read that when Zoroastrianism was still a significant minority religion in Persia, Muslims would torture and kill their dogs in order to provoke revolts which they could then suppress and forceably convert the survivors. Is this a probable tactic and of so, was it used against other minorities?	177
In 1475, all Christians were expelled from the great Genoese trading city of Caffa by the Ottomans. Was there a significant change in how the slave trade operated?	28