indeed. the point was, historically, that they had some shit which you wanted and reasonably expected to get as a result land, animals--or, grimly--human labor
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hence, the raid--your armed party trying to get the drop on them and take what you want often by killing everyone who had it and the ambush, where you find out a raid is coming, and get the drop on them instead
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Caesar didn't kill a million Celts in set piece battles. He killed a million Celts "pacifying" the countryside by razing villages and enslaving everyone.
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Alesia is unique in that Caesar actually managed to just completely surround a town with a wall and kill literally everyone in it. Totally outside the norm to the point that it's the most well known battle of his campaigns.
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Varies by area and by custom, admittedly, but there is a reason violence is usually an elite privilege historically and it's largely because common civilians aren't much good at it.
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It tended to be more 'It is quite easy to avoid an enemy army or not find it'. If both sides wanted a decisive battle, you had to agree where to meet.
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