The Goths rebelled and began looting and pillaging throughout the eastern Balkans. There was plundering and pillaging in Prague for weeks following the battle. Martial law was instituted as looting and pillaging of deserted stores increased. Their fighters are noted to stop SAA soldiers from looting and pillaging. Various barbarian tribes went from raiding and pillaging the island to invading and settling. Iberian warfare was endemic and based on intertribal raiding and pillaging. It included both pillaging and bloody massacres in Russian cities. However, the rampant pillaging and systematic destruction had desolated much of the new city. These led to a certain amount of sacking, pillaging, and vandalism. The city of Aurich was besieged and destroyed by the fighting and pillaging troops. The inexperienced troops often resorted to pillaging and burning settlements. Genghis Khan heeded the advice and the Mongol pillaging eased. Soldiers began openly pillaging the Galveston quartermasters stores on May 21. After pillaging Quadi lands without opposition, he retired to Savaria to winter quarters. They sacked Syracuse, Sicily and returned to Egypt after a month of pillaging.