foreign country, call past, crucifixion a common punishment. invented — Steven Pinker, Better Angels Nature: Violence Declined

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In the foreign country, we call the past, crucifixion was a common punishment. It was invented by the Persians, carried back to Europe by Alexander the Great, and widely used in Mediterranean empires.

Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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