Suppressing subject peoples contributed to mercenaries’ own disappearance from modern Europe

Evidence

Depending then on changing fortunes, the “identities” of the combatants, the geopolitics of wars, and the mission, mercenaries were drawn from among the Swiss, the Scots, Picardians, Bretons, Flemings, Welsh, Basques, Mavarrese, Gallowayians, Dalmatians, Corsicans, Burgundians, Gueldrians, the Irish, Czechs, Croatians, Magyars, and from Gascony, Allgaeu, Norway, and Albania. Since one function and result of the work of these mercenaries was the suppression of subject peoples, the degree of their success is directly indicated by their own absence, for the most part, from the political geography of modern Europe. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 191

Categorization

• QUESTION: The mercenary-source regions largely vanished from political geography — worth tracing which regions were absorbed and how that foreshadows later extraction zones.