Genocide in Ancient Rome: Peoples and Tribes Exterminated by Ancient Rome

It should be immediately noted that the ancient Romans never set out to kill all members of a certain people. Even their most sworn enemies preferred to conquer, subjugate, and assimilate, making them part of the Roman state. However, their methods of warfare and the practice of looting enemy cities, after which all surviving inhabitants were universally enslaved, sometimes led to the disappearance of entire tribes and peoples from the face of the Earth. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:630/1*AO9N9euBpvjaDe_BAZBQ8A.png" style="height:468px; width:700px" /> The Roman army as depicted by modern reenactors. The ancient Romans were the first to be targeted by their closest neighbors, the Etruscans. The Romans destroyed a huge metropolis near Rome — the Etruscan city of Veii, which had a population of 350,000 people. After the third Veientine war, in 396 BC, it was captured by Rome, and all its surviving citizens became Roman slaves. The Romans gradually conquered and destroyed the twelve-city league of ancient Etruria until all former Etruscan lands were subjugated to Rome. Their population dissolved among the Romans by the 1st century BC. <a href="https://medium.com/@ancient.rome/genocide-in-ancient-rome-peoples-and-tribes-exterminated-by-ancient-rome-ec02460a675e">Read More</a>