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Book: Carnage & Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
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  1. Victor Davis Hanson _ Carnage & Culture: Landmark

    Japan would live and die by the race card-defining {and demonizing} America as "white" and thus Japan as a kindred but clearly superior "yellow" people.
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  2. Victor Davis Hanson _ Carnage & Culture: Landmark

    Given the Western ability to produce deadly weapons, its propensity to create cheap, plentiful goods, and its tradition of seeing war in pragmatic rather than ritual terms as a mechanism to advance political ends, it is no surprise that Mesoamericans, African tribes, and native North Americans all joined European forces to help kill off Aztecs, Zulus, and Lakotas.
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  3. Victor Davis Hanson _ Carnage & Culture: Landmark

    Mexica warriors were predicated on birth and status. In a cyclical pattern of cause and effect, such greater innate advantages gave aristocrats predominance on the battlefield in taking captives, which in turn provided proof of their martial excellence-and
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  4. Victor Davis Hanson _ Carnage & Culture: Landmark

    For a capitalist system to work, the state had to protect, not regulate or interfere with, free markets. Both for political and religious reasons, this the sultan could not do: The Ottomans had then no idea of the balance of trade. . . . Originated from an age-old tradition in the Middle East, the Ottoman trade policy was that the state had to be concerned above all that the people and craftsmen in the cities in particular would not suffer a shortage of necessities and raw material. Consequently, the imports were always welcomed and encouraged, and exports discouraged.
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