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: Heralds used white wands and standards to distinguish themselves from combatants. By the 16th and 17th centuries, white was a standard indicator of a person being exempt from combat. Why White?

: It is believed that approximately 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, the Chinese used white as a color for mourning, which eventually evolved into a symbol of surrender. White Flag

: Historian Livy recorded a Carthaginian ship using "white wool and branches of olive" to signal defeat during the Second Punic War (218 B.C.). In 69 A.D., Tacitus noted white flags were used by Vitellian forces surrendering at the Second Battle of Cremona. : Heralds used white wands and standards to