If you would have lived in Greece in about 300BC, you could have witnessed The battle of Thermopyle
At the time of founding for the 13 colonies, slavery was legal in every one of them.
The action that is most closely associated with totalitarian governments is (3) engaging in censorship and propaganda campaigns. A totalitarian government controls all aspect of public and private life in the country over which they rule. Examples of governments like this were the Nazi Regime, Italian Fascism and Soviet Communist Rule.