re: #110 freetoken

I don’t know enough about the indigenous cultures of the Americas, or Africa, or SE Asia, to be confident to say that sectarianism (as we understand it) was a driver in their conflicts.

In NE Asia I do not believe that (formal) religious beliefs played a central role in their warfare. The Mongols, the Han, and those who came to be known as the Koreans and Japanese certainly had their own bloodthirstiness, but I can’t pick any particularly religious wars from memory.

Can’t speak for other NA cultures but my understanding is that the Aztec’s conflicts were pretty much always driven by religion. It’s how they got enough victims for their sacrifices.

In fact their weapons were designed to cripple rather than kill and they had strict rules about who could fight who.

Not surprising as among the Emperor’s many titles was, “Our God, our enemy, our murderer.”