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...citizen of ancient Rome somehow found it within his means to proffer a spicy gift to the gods. In ancient Greece, where bread-baking was a fine art, the city of Rhodes was as famous for its gingerbread as it was for its harbor-bestriding Colossus. Part of the loot that the roving Crusaders carried home was culinary lore of the East, including the recipe for gingerbread. As spices came to be a more common property, the great mass of the people took gingerbread to its heart, and it became a cherished heritage in the universal family of foods...
...Rape and loot were not all: 42,000 people, including soldiers and civilian men, women and children, were murdered, some as practice bayonet dummies...
...Rape and loot and murder were not all: $75,000,000 worth of property was destroyed by fire...
Britain's "loot" from India is about 5% on an investment of some 4 billion dollars...
...invasion barges had been invented when Crusader Richard Coeur de Lion captured the island of Cyprus in the Twelfth Century. The Knights of St. John had no guns nor explosives when they built a castled city on the Isle of Rhodes. Airplanes were undreamed-of when they buried their loot in the caverns on the island of Malta. But then as now, these islands were steppingstones toward the treasures of Egypt and the Holy land. Men's weapons have changed but the routes of conquest remain...