So has there ever been a truly peaceful civilization in all of history?

So has there ever been a truly peaceful civilization in all of history?

Other urls found in this thread:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_people
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

America. It only goes to war when it has to/is forced to

>America

Peaceful epochs are blank pages in the book of history, user.

just like rome

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_people

a better question would be if there is any way for a truly peaceful society to exist when non-peaceful competitors also exist

Depends on what extent you believe peace must be pursued while remaining peaceful.

In Civ, me playing a peaceful civ is eliminating anyone who declares war on me.

My friends don't argue with each other and we're all different races and genders. Sometimes we play videogames together and when we got out we split the bill evenly among us all.

so is history really just >muh legacy?

San Marino?

the meaning of peaceful has been cucking beyond belief in modernity

in the ancient civs it had nothing to do with being a hippy defeatist faggot

cucked*

>the meaning of peaceful has been cucking beyond belief in modernity
>in the ancient civs it had nothing to do with being a hippy defeatist faggot
Probably because peaceful and pacifist mean two different things but you're not educated enough to put your thoughts into words.

They were all wiped out like
No, none of your nations were peaceful, even the "neutral" countries have a violent past.

Muh semantics

Germany since 1945

Yes, The Essenes are profoundly peaceful.

Yes, the Moriori people who kept to the ideology despite it leading to them being genocided (and literally eaten) by other Polynesians.

>Despite knowing of the Māori predilection for killing and eating the conquered, and despite the admonition by some of the elder chiefs that the principle of Nunuku was not appropriate now, two chiefs — Tapata and Torea — declared that "the law of Nunuku was not a strategy for survival, to be varied as conditions changed; it was a moral imperative."[18] A Moriori survivor recalled : "[The Maori] commenced to kill us like sheep.... [We] were terrified, fled to the bush, concealed ourselves in holes underground, and in any place to escape our enemies. It was of no avail; we were discovered and killed - men, women and children indiscriminately." A Māori conqueror explained, "We took possession... in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people. Not one escaped....." [19] The invaders ritually killed some 10% of the population, a ritual that included staking out women and children on the beach and leaving them to die in great pain over several days. The Māori invaders forbade the speaking of the Moriori language. They forced Moriori to desecrate their sacred sites by urinating and defecating on them.[20]

>After the invasion, Moriori were forbidden to marry Moriori, or to have children with each other. All became slaves of the Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga invaders. Many Moriori women had children by their Māori masters.

peace is another term for the recuperation period for going back to war

a civilization will only have peace if it is incapable of going to war

>Reads Tolstoy once

Not really a civilization.

Yes.

As Bob Dylan once said, "peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle." No civilization can be truly peaceful.

The Minoans weren't pacifists, but their society seems to have been extraordinarily peaceful. Crete was unified, apparently peacefully, from a very early period, and the great "palaces" they lived in show no signs of fortification, in very sharp contrast to the "cyclopean" walls which are near-universal in other bronze age civilisations.

Bob Dylan a faggot :)

It's all butt a figment of your imagination.

Because their military only wen't on "peace" missions, killing people in the name of "peace".

Cucks and beta males of Veeky Forums will talk about a bunch of obscure civilisations. Nobody fucking CARES about them. The reason why EVERYONE wants to be EUROPE is because, our aggression is civilised and is what has pulled the world into modernity.

You guys are the blight on the world; how does it make you feel?

Anyone else think of Bane when they see the peace sign now?

That's only because they had a beast of a navy and natural defenses.

Sure, but there's no evidence they ever waged a war, or conquered territory or even a city. They set up colonies in the Agean and dominated the trade networks of the eastern Mediterranean, and that means they must have been able to protect themselves, but their society honored athletes and women, not warriors.

>NATO member

How about no?

Ages past, when man still walked with God.

bump

Tibet, maybe?