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November 19th, 2012, 07:23 AM
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#1 | | Scholar
Joined: Mar 2012 From: New York City Posts: 541 | How did the Ancients solve crimes before modern science?
What were the techniques for various civilization?
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Last edited by Ashiusx; November 19th, 2012 at 08:23 AM.
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November 19th, 2012, 07:24 AM
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#2 | | Misanthropologist
Joined: Aug 2010 From: Wales Posts: 8,465 |
detective work
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November 19th, 2012, 08:05 AM
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#3 | | Revisionist
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November 19th, 2012, 08:17 AM
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#4 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 19,934 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashiusx  What were the techniques for various civilization? | The use of torture for criminal investigation purposes has been extremely prevalent all along History until quite recently, and arguably still so in some parts of this Planet.
In the case of the Roman Republican citizens, it was fundamentally restricted to their slaves.
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November 19th, 2012, 12:17 PM
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#5 | | Suspended indefinitely
Joined: Mar 2010 From: Montréal Posts: 512 |
Use Christians as scapegoats.
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November 19th, 2012, 12:27 PM
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#6 | | Historian
Joined: Mar 2010 From: USA Posts: 4,307 |
I'm guessing the same way Brother Cadfael solved his cases.  | | | |
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November 19th, 2012, 12:28 PM
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#7 | | Megas Domestikos
Joined: Dec 2009 From: Canada Posts: 2,477 |
By hiring the best rhetor you can find to make sure the courts pin it on the other guy. Take Lysias as an example: | | | |
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November 19th, 2012, 12:32 PM
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#8 | | Guanarteme
Joined: Feb 2010 From: Canary Islands-Spain Posts: 2,257 |
It was very common to push "criminals" to pass trials such as:
*Get a handled witch into a river, if she die, she is guilty.
*Put the tongue on heated iron, the accused with lesser burns is innocent.
*Get the girl inside a room and fill it with smoke, if she survives, she's pure blood
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November 19th, 2012, 12:34 PM
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#9 | | Spiritual Ronin
Joined: Aug 2009 From: Minnesnowta Posts: 19,004 |
Trial by ordeal used to be popular and dates back to at least the Bronze age | | | |
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November 19th, 2012, 09:29 PM
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#10 | | Archivist
Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 156 |
Criminal trial in ancient Rome Roman Law A Roman citizen could not be sentenced to death unless he was found guilty of treason. A Roman citizen had the right to be tried in Romeif accused of treason. If sentenced to death, no Roman citizen could be sentenced to be crucified.
Exempt from death penalty? It sounds to me that being a Roman citizen is really privileged lol
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Last edited by h6wq9rjk; November 19th, 2012 at 09:46 PM.
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