AS Conquest

[David L. White]

>> Enslavment (or enserfment) is much more profitable than extermination/
>> expulsion, and is the general practice of conquerors.

> -- this would be news to the American Indians, the Tasmanians, the Australian
> Aboriginies, the San hunters of southern Africa, and innumerable other
> groups.

        It makes a difference whether the conquered are farmers, are
regarded as of inferior race, have been so devastated by small-pox that they
can be pushed aside with no trouble, etc.  It would not be news to the
populations of most of the Roman Empire, Anatolia after Manzikert, the
Egyptians, northern Indians (who have repeatedly been conquered by intruders
from the NW but never exterminated or even much influenced), the Hutus in
Africa, etc.

                                                            Dr. David L. White