All the recent attacks had me wondering - did terrorism exist

>>34159737
Dude, it existed B.C.

>>34159747
What would be the equivalent of a 9/11 in the Roman/Greek times? They didn't have jet liners or skyscrapers back then...

>>34159737
it only started when governments realized they could make their citizens cower in fear and accept insane draconian laws by using the terrorist bogeymen as excuses.

It was muzzie invasions and slave raids that kicked off the Crusades.

>>34159758
sicarri Zealots would run around with knives and randomly kill roman people.

thuggees (i think) were Indian bandits who would strangle merchants at night.

Anarchists in the 1800s pretty much invented the concept of the IED as a murder weapon, though they were obviously not as potent.

Assassins really blur the line as to what terrorism is too. if you count it, there you go. Same with arson (keep in mind, fire control was very bad for a long time). christians burning the Library of Alexandria would fit.

the concept of terror certainly existed, but in many cases the "government" did it. look at Assyrian brutality, or Chinese warlordism.

>>34159737
Terrorism did exist, but mass media didn't. Someone would kill someone else or a group of people, then that guy would be executed. End of story.

You could however say that the USS Maine in 1898 was the world's first 9/11.