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1000 years of war in 5 minutes

It is counting battles, so that big one you see near the end is World War II, which had quite a few battles.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
was basically a record of which civilizations had the ability to write and archive their history for a while
 
Udgnim said:
was basically a record of which civilizations had the ability to write and archive their history for a while
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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:
 
ProfJohn said:
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.
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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😛
 
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.
 
theflyingpig said:
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.
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War has never advanced mankind, it keeps it perpetually behind. Everyone knows this.
 
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.
 
BoomerD said:
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.
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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.
 
Wars used to weed out weak civilizations but these days they tend to be just wasteful since weapons are much more destructive.
 
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