Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:41:29 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   Read up on the Italian and Greek city-state eras.
   The "town over the hill" was always attacking.

Thucydides got an Amazon best seller out of it. If the bible can be
believed the tribal god was big on genocide when somebody else was living
on the land he gave you. That hasn't changed a bit.

A lot of the petty squabbles were eclipsed by the Thirty Years war but it
took a Bismarck to put together I don't know how many pissant
principalities, free cities, and other local turfs after the Holy Roman
Empire fell apart.