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Why was Imperial China so deadly?It seems like every accounting of a battle goes like, "After a small skirmish in which only 325,000 people were killed, the Emperor, in his wisdom and mercy, ordered only 73,000 of the townspeople to buried alive"

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Why was Imperial China so deadly?It seems like every accounting of a battle goes like, "After a small skirmish in which only 325,000 people were killed, the Emperor, in his wisdom and mercy, ordered only 73,000 of the townspeople to buried alive"	2882	AskHistorians