Terrorism in Ancient World

The terrorism as we understand it today may be noted in numerous chronics since the written language was invented and the political and military history was written down. Developing, the Ancient civilizations gradually turned into the stable forms of society and all governments started to base on the laws that regulated the social relations including the violence aspects. The leading role in controlling these relations belonged to religions and beliefs.

In the second millennium BC, the slight limits of violence that was inevitable started to form in the Ancient East. Later this process got more developed and organised form. And during the period of Ancient Greece and Rome the certain forms and even rules of wars were adapted. They were rather primitive nevertheless it was the first step in violence preventing and not even preventing but its control.

These rules included the exchange of the dead bodies, the protection of civil population during the war as well as protection of infrastructure on the territory of the war, the prohibition of rather dangerous ways and methods of wars (at that time such method was considered to be the poisoned arms), the system of armistice and a lot of other points.

The introduction of such rules was not the result of humane impulses but the result of political and practical necessity and financial benefits. In practice people rarely kept to these rules, its evidence is the chronic of that time.