Macabre question I’m pondering right now: is there more killing on rough, lawless frontiers or corrupt and collapsing civilization cores. My intuition is that the latter is far worse but I have no data.
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The American colonial experience isn't a good case study because of the disruption caused by disease. A better study would be frontiers with the steppes in Asia. China, India, Mesopotamia and Russia all faced regular pressure from there. /1
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I'd expect you'll find frontiers experience regular violence over time, punctuated by periods of increased violence and outright invasion. The interior would have long periods of broad stability, punctuated by extremely violent civil wars. /2
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