 Complete the following phrase:  Such acts of aggression were not limited to wars against territorial enemies, but could form part of the strategies of conquest, subjugation and punishment of rebellion. Alexander the Great suppressed a revolt in Thebes, Greece in 335 BC, after which he ordered the city to be torched and laid waste. Alexander ordered or allowed a similar arson at Persepolis in 330 BC. It was a policy which was repeated throughout the period. William I of England, following his conquest of England in the 11th century, asserted his control of Northumbria by destructive campaigns throughout the region: He ordered that crops and herds, tools and food should be burned to ashes. More than 100,000 people perished of hunger, reported Orderic Vitalis, a contemporary chronicler. It was a scene repeated the following century, during the 