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I would say that mass slaughter tends to be associated with a particular type of society, i.e. a centralized authoritarian state with a ruling class. This type of society reached its 'highest' or should I say 'lowest' form in Europe. There were indeed mass slaughters before European ascendancy, as a glance at the Old Testament or at Kemetic hieroglyphs depicting conquests will confirm, but nowhere near the scale and regularity of those perpetrated by the Europeans. With the European powers, mass slaughter became a general modus operandi, rather than an occasional spasm.
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