They are constantly at war with their neighbours, robbing and plundering each other, so that security is an unknown concept.
If it was harvest time, they stole the corn; and if alms were refused, they punished the owners by plundering their granaries at night.
Our data indicate that the combatants who see war as an occupation - and therefore changed ' employer' when new economic opportunities (of looting and plundering) emerge - are relatively few.
This is not looting and plundering.
These lands were too poor and fragmented to support large state systems and the pastoral inhabitants of the area indulged in relatively localized plundering expeditions into the plains.
This problem was compounded by high administrative costs, evasion and the plundering of early surpluses for investment in areas which generated low, if any, rates of return.
The prisoner and two other men with a horse and cart were found plundering an apple orchard in a lonely village in broad daylight.
A complete free-for-all would simply mean the unscrupulous plundering of existing services wherever there was a fast buck to be made.
