1000 years of war in 5 minutes

[DrPizza]

Just something that makes you think - as a human race, we might be doomed to destroy ourselves. If you watch the whole 5 minutes, you'll see how it really starts to pick up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hsDn2kNriI&NR=1

 

[CurseTheSky]

Europe in the 1700s and early 1800s was... ouch.

 

[Crono]

It's like labor.

 

[nboy22]

It is counting battles, so that big one you see near the end is World War II, which had quite a few battles.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Pretty cool, I skipped to halfway in. Holy shit the WWII one was insane. That was like watching popcorn pop.

 

[Born2bwire]

It's interesting but it seems a bit skewed because it seems to just blip up battles. For example, the American Civil War was a veritable teeny tiny blip but it certainly saw a large share of casualties. Not to mention the Eurocentricism of the battles reported. My recollection is that Asian history is much more bloody than what was depicted. For example, surely there would have been noteworthy battles from the rise of the Yuan Dynasty in the 1200's or so when the Mongols took over the dynasty.

 

[Slew Foot]

Stupid Europeans always blowing shit up

 

[Moonbeam]

People hate themselves and don't know they do. That makes what they hate unknown and why they hate the unknown. This doesn't bode well for strangers.

 

[ProfJohn]

A little bit dramatic with the sizes of the explosions too.

To be fair he should have made their sizes in relation to the world population at the time as well.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

WW2 made me lol.

 

[Udgnim]

was basically a record of which civilizations had the ability to write and archive their history for a while

 

[dighn]

was basically a record of which civilizations had the ability to write and archive their history for a while

and also what battles wikipedia contributors bothered to write about.

 

[Mo0o]

Lol talk about eurocentric

 

[zinfamous]

was basically a record of which civilizations had the ability to write and archive their history for a while

yep.

It's as if the Americas were a land of peace and unicorns until whitey showed up! lol...

also, no war in all of China during the entire dynastic periods, eh?

:hmm:

 

[dighn]

Lol talk about eurocentric

exactly. my recollection of chinese history for example is a lot bloodier than that, but then, wikipedia is banned in china...

 

[andylawcc]

Lol talk about eurocentric

this.

or lack of evidence/proof for the rest of the world.

 

[Malak]

Just something that makes you think - as a human race, we might be doomed to destroy ourselves.

Of course we are. The few people that want the world to be a better place get laughed at and ridiculed by the rest.

 

[0roo0roo]

A little bit dramatic with the sizes of the explosions too.

To be fair he should have made their sizes in relation to the world population at the time as well.

yep, it is a bit misleading, based on death in proportion to total population, war has gotten a lot less bloody over time...even including ww2. ancient war..u really wiped the sh*t out of people when u won.

and yea eurocentric ftl

 

[theflyingpig]

Beautiful. War is the oil of progress, and it will never go away. The inferior are replaced by the superior, and the human race becomes stronger. Nothing advances our society faster and in more ways than war. Peace is the stagnation of evolution. Everyone knows this.

 

[Malak]

Beautiful. War is the oil of progress, and it will never go away. The inferior are replaced by the superior, and the human race becomes stronger. Nothing advances our society faster and in more ways than war. Peace is the stagnation of evolution. Everyone knows this.

War has never advanced mankind, it keeps it perpetually behind. Everyone knows this.

 

[theflyingpig]

War has never advanced mankind, it keeps it perpetually behind. Everyone knows this.

Wrong.

 

[BoomerD]

Based solely on that, I can easily come to the conclusion that MOST of the wars fought on the planet were the fault of Europeans.

Sure, there was the occasional battle in China, Japan, and other parts of the Orient, but 99% of the battles shown were either in Europe/western Russia/surrounding countries until about the 1600's...then they started spreading to the "New World" as the Europeans started colonizing that part of the world.

Is it 100% accurate? Fuck no...but it's fun to jump to conclusions based on faulty and limited information.

 

[theflyingpig]

Based solely on that, I can easily come to the conclusion that MOST of the wars fought on the planet were the fault of Europeans.

Sure, there was the occasional battle in China, Japan, and other parts of the Orient, but 99% of the battles shown were either in Europe/western Russia/surrounding countries until about the 1600's...then they started spreading to the "New World" as the Europeans started colonizing that part of the world.

Is it 100% accurate? Fuck no...but it's fun to jump to conclusions based on faulty and limited information.

Yes, and all of the places where lots of wars were fought are the most technologically advanced as well. Warlike nations advanced, peaceful nations either stagnated or were destroyed. Everyone knows this.

 

[JTsyo]

Wars used to weed out weak civilizations but these days they tend to be just wasteful since weapons are much more destructive.

 

[Wyndru]

Just something that makes you think - as a human race, we might be doomed to destroy ourselves. If you watch the whole 5 minutes, you'll see how it really starts to pick up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hsDn2kNriI&NR=1

That's an interesting vid, thanks!