Mozi, Confucius' Greatest Victim

A History of Mankind (118)

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War itself became fundamentally different in China during the Warring States Period. As in the Fertile Crescent (and elsewhere), ancient military combat had a strong ceremonial component, as befits aristocratic or feudal societies: upper-class warriors clad in expensive armor fought each other from their expensive chariots, while the proles walked or run to their deaths, bludgeoning each other with inferior weapons and no regard for property or tradition.