The Vikings were a feared force in Europe because of their savagery and speed of their attacks.

The savagery with which Desmoulins attacked those with whom he disagreed drew lawsuits, criticism, and reciprocal attacks.

In his 1954 novel " The King's Rangers "— after extensive research in Canadian archives — Brick reported that the savagery at Cherry Valley was done under direction of two sub-chiefs of Joseph Brant, the Mohawk chief ; and that Brant, by dint of negligence or worse, abandoned his promise to Walter Butler to control the Indians ' fighting so as to prevent attacks on women and children, the defenseless and captured.

Like other scholars of his day ( such as Edward Tylor ), Morgan argued that human societies could be classified into categories of cultural evolution on a scale of progression that ranged from savagery, to barbarism, to civilization.

Oryphas, the admiral of the Byzantine fleet, alerted the emperor Michael, who promptly put the invaders to flight ; but the suddenness and savagery of the onslaught made a deep impression on the citizens.

Acts of savagery on Kidd's part were reported by escaped prisoners, who told stories of being hoisted up by the arms and drubbed with a drawn cutlass.

Some of the acts committed against civilians during the war were on such a massive scale of savagery, they came to be widely considered as crimes against humanity itself.

A. O. Scott, in The New York Times, said, "' The Passion of the Christ ' is so relentlessly focused on the savagery of Jesus ' final hours that this film seems to arise less from love than from wrath, and to succeed more in assaulting the spirit than in uplifting it.

John Bulero, a young clone of one of the original Bulero's, decides to see what life is like on a planet, and lives for a while amongst the natives, descendants of a human colony that has reverted back to savagery.

Powell divided human societies into " savagery ," " barbarism " and " civilization " based on levels of technology, family and social organization, property relations, and intellectual development.

He broke with the rest of the English language press ( which focused on Indian savagery and treachery ) and instead blamed the violence on the lack of discipline and poor leadership in the army.

His savagery went to the point that he ordered to bring their small children, got them tied down on earth and made thresh grain stones to smash them.

A famous work describing how a group of schoolboys trapped on an island descends into savagery.

With his Nazi connections he settled brutally some old scores, and he stayed with the Nazis on ideological grounds long after their savagery was exposed and after their coming defeat was apparent to all.

At the Battle of Harlaw ( known as " Red Harlaw " on account of its savagery ) on 24 July 1411, losses were heavy on both sides, though McDonald's eventual withdrawal allowed the Stewarts to claim a strategic victory.

The music on this album took on a profound death metal influence, at times reminiscent of early Deicide or Morbid Angel, but was still easily identifiable as black metal-the imagery and emotions evoked by the songs pertained to epic battle, rather than the savagery and chaotic lawlessness of death metal.

This grave at the Zapadnaya Litsa River | " Memorial for the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic " on the Litsa River symbolizes the savagery of a 4 year long Arctic stalemate.

His savagery went to such a point that he ordered to bring their small children, got them tied down on earth and made thresh grain stones to smash them .” The Byzantine soldiers looted and plundered ; burnt down the unharvested fields, cut the tendons of the oxen, slaughtered sheep and pigs.

The massacre in the village of Ahmići, on 16 April 1993, is an example of the savagery of the terror.

Examples of this savagery include the retaliatory slaughter of human slaves ( this was shown after the victory of the Black Watch ), the nuclear destruction of San Diego ( also in response to the Black Watch's assassination of the Earth Commander of the Horde Forces ), and the decapitation of children ( especially by literally ripping their heads off ) in order to establish dominance over newly captured human slaves ( one particularly brutal terror-tactic favored by the Horde early in the war was to capture large numbers of humans in order to take them just outside the Earth's atmosphere and then eject them from the ships, allowing them to burn up in re-entry so watchers on the ground could see the streaks representing their burning forms.

Stapledon's conception of history is based on the Hegelian Dialectic, following a repetitive cycle with many varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, but it is also one of progress, as the later civilizations rise to far greater heights than the first.

( Chapter 14 ) " Inevitably it was a dwarf type, limited in size by the necessity of resisting an excessive gravitation ... too delicately organized to withstand the ferocity of natural forces on Neptune ... civilization crumbled into savagery.

" Defensive end Greg Townsend, a teammate on the Raiders, contended that the savagery for which Alzado became noted represented only part of a " split personality.

Irish clerical sources in the 1660s claimed that 4, 000 civilians had died at Drogheda, denouncing the sack as " unparalleled savagery and treachery beyond any slaughterhouse ".

: Then as the crowning savagery of war, we as Americans wiped out hundreds of thousands of civilian population with the atom bomb in Japan, few in any of the ordinary civilians being any more responsible for the war than were we and perhaps no more aiding Japan in the war than we were aiding America.

ZANLA fighters were well known for their savagery when it came to dealing with Ndebele civilians who were usually taken into what were called overnight bases and forced to sing songs in Shona denouncing ZAPU and its leader Joshua Nkomo.

They were transformed into drow by the Seldarine and were cast down and driven underground by the light-skinned elves because of the Ilythiirian's savagery during the Crown Wars.

Likewise, the savagery shown by the Colorado Volunteers during the Sand Creek massacre resulted in Native Americans, particularly the Dog Soldiers, a band of the Cheyenne, engaging in savage retribution.

This ambivalence, according to some analysts, could partly explain the extreme acts of savagery perpetrated by the peasantry during La Violencia.

The Swedish armies, allied with the French, have a reputation for particular savagery in Lorraine during the time of Duke Charles IV.

He described the savagery and oppression of the British on peaceful Sikhs during the Guru ka Bagh Morcha demonstration in his second book of poetry, Zakhmi Dil.

During this period of the Beast War other senses to fight after being blinded in an explosion, and reverted to savagery after being trapped in his beast mode due to the Predacons stealing a component from the Axalon.

Few battles in the closing months of World War II exceeded the destruction and the brutality of the massacres and savagery of the fighting in Manila.

In Churchward's view, the present-day Polynesians are not descendants of the dominant members of the lost civilization of Mu, responsible for these great works, but survivors of the cataclysm that adopted “ the first cannibalism and savagery ” in the world.

Thus to lowland Lao these Austroasiatic groups have traditionally represented savagery, godlessness, witchcraft, illiteracy, and anarchy.

Throughout these poems, she addresses violence and savagery, yet tries to bring grace into the equation.

The savagery of the insurrections and the reprisals did finally provoke a reaction from the outside world.

I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.

" Polevoy had few equals in depicting German savagery or in glorifying Soviet heroism.

A few isolated pockets of humanity survived in underground bunkers, while others quickly reverted to pre-technological savagery.

* Big Planet ( 1957 ), by Jack Vance, depicts a world in which attempts by utopian misfits to set up new societies have gone haywire after many revert to savagery and violence.

A foreign journalist, George Lynch, said " there are things that I must not write, and that may not be printed in England, which would seem to show that this Western civilization of ours is merely a veneer over savagery.

This is opposed to Saevitia which was savagery and bloodshed.

However, since his benefactor Maecenas was a native Etruscan, Virgil portrayed Mezentius as a tyrant, attributing to him personally the evils which the Greek authors had previously accused the Etruscans of, such as torture and savagery, an ethnic prejudice already present in the Homeric Hymns.

: As for the Harii, quite apart from their strength, which exceeds that of the other tribes I have just listed, they pander to their innate savagery by skill and timing: with black shields and painted bodies, they choose dark nights to fight, and by means of terror and shadow of a ghostly army they cause panic, since no enemy can bear a sight so unexpected and hellish ; in every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered.

The term " Bongo " and " Congo " has been seen by many as a racial slur which tended to conjure mental imagery of African savagery.

It was a battle which became notorious for its savagery and revealed the ruthless side of Carrera.

National Vanguard, the publication of former physics professor William Pierce ( see The Alliance and its Allies ) and his neo-Nazi National Alliance, runs a similar piece that concludes that " it is the Negro's deficiency ... which kept him in a state of savagery in his African environment and is now undermining the civilization of a racially mixed America.

Denoted by a unique mark on his right paw, the Taggerung is a fearsome fighter ( In the story, the word ' Taggerung ' literally means a warrior of unbeatable strength, courage, and savagery ), a warrior the likes of which has not been seen for many seasons.

The 3, 000 foreign troops now in Rwanda are no more than spectators to the savagery which aid workers say has seen the massacre of 15, 000 people "

As for the Harii, quite apart from their strength, which exceeds that of the other tribes I have just listed, they pander to their innate savagery by skill and timing: with black shields and painted bodies, they choose dark nights to fight, and by means of terror and shadow of a ghostly army they cause panic, since no enemy can bear a sight so unexpected and hellish ; in every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered.

Idea of progress led to that of a fixed " stages " through which human societies progress, usually numbering three — savagery, barbarism, and civilization — but sometimes many more.

Lewis H. Morgan, an anthropologist whose ideas have had much impact on sociology, in his 1877 classic Ancient Societies differentiated between three eras: savagery, barbarism and civilization, which are divided by technological inventions, like fire, bow, pottery in the savage era, domestication of animals, agriculture, metalworking in the barbarian era and alphabet and writing in the civilization era.

God speed the plow .... By this wonderful provision, which is only man's mastery over nature, the clouds are dispensing copious rains ... plow is the instrument which separates civilization from savagery ; and converts a desert into a farm or garden .... To be more concise, Rain follows the plow.

Upon reaching Babylon, which holds out against him, Tamburlaine displays further acts of extravagant savagery.

The savagery of the baton charges by the Queensland Police and specials on Black Friday created a bitterness and hatred of the police which would last for several decades.

However, she also struggled to control the savagery which was her paternal gift / curse.

To reinforce this imagery, the band placed mellow musical interludes at certain parts of the album – tracks 3 and 10 – to cause of a sudden mood of reflection before and after the savagery of the hardcore songs which dominate this recording.

Lewis H. Morgan, an anthropologist whose ideas have had much impact on sociology, in his 1877 classic " Ancient Societies " differentiated between three eras: savagery, barbarism and civilisation, which are divided by technological inventions, like fire, bow, pottery in savage era, domestication of animals, agriculture, metalworking in barbarian era and alphabet and writing in civilisation era.