According to Egil's Saga, the Kylfings were trading and plundering in Finnmark around the year 900.
The charges include 32 counts of murder, persecution and plunder in Croatia during the initial part of the Balkan war that later spilled into Bosnia.
In 1986 he published "The Ditch: A Spiritual Trial," a work of prose and poems that centered on a German massacre of Russians in the Crimea in 1941 and the plundering in the 1980s of their mass graves by Soviet citizens.
Whether murder and plunder in India, slaughter in Algeria, devastation in Cameroon, or torture and massacre in the Philippines, few western powers can rightfully claim innocence.
Under the Karamanli rulers, Tripoli levied tribute on and plundered shipping in the Mediterranean, a practice that led to the Tripolitan War with the United States in 1801 05.
More recently, the tables have turned with critics of Rwanda's Tutsi leadership accusing it of subsequently overseeing an orgy of killing, rape and plunder in eastern Congo.
This presents an implicit contrast with previous conquerors, notably the Assyrian rulers Tukulti-Ninurta I, who invaded and plundered Babylon in the 12th century BC, and Sennacherib, who did the same thing 150 years before Cyrus conquered the region.
In general the impression is that, in the end, rather than fight the central authority, the satraps were willing to return to their own provinces and plunder there in the name of Artaxerxes.
The book also makes clear that even with the money and goods plundered in the occupied territories from both Jews and non-Jews, only a German military victory would have let the German economy survive the enormous debt burden it had accrued.
There was no reminder, in the optimistic and apolitical notion of "development," that industrialization had depended upon slavery and colonial plunder in the past, or that it might lead to environmental disaster in the future.
It underwent a 25-year restoration in the 1800s after substantial damage and plunder during the French Revolution in the 1790s.
