“Building and maintaining an empire usually required the brutal extermination of a large population and the harsh oppression of everyone who remained. The standard imperial toolkit included wars, enslavement, deportation, and genocide. When the Romans invaded Scotland in AD 83, they encountered fierce resistance from the local Caledonian tribes but eventually devastated the country. In response to the Romans’ peace proposals, the leader Calgacus called the Romans ‘robbers of the world’ and said, ‘robbery, slaughter, and raid they misname empire, they make a desert and call it peace’.”
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