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> [ American Civil War was the ] most bloody Civil War in human history From Wikipedia : American Civil War : Total 705,000–900,000 + dead Chinese Civil War
by simula67 11y ago
> [ American Civil War was the ] most bloody Civil War in human history
From Wikipedia :
American Civil War : Total 705,000–900,000 + dead
Chinese Civil War : 1.5 million + 250,000
- Grue3 11y agoThere was even a worse one in this very century: Second Congo War (1998-2003). Estimated 5.4 million deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War
- metafunctor 11y agoYes, I raised an eyebrow as well when I heard this. The Russian Civil War also had millions of casualties.
- m82labs 11y agoMaybe as a percentage of total population it would be true?
- mikeash 11y agoNot even close. The An Lushan rebellion killed several percent of the entire world's population.
- JBReefer 11y agoTo be clear, it may have killed as many as 1/6 of the human population [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_Rebellion#Death_toll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_Rebellion#Death_toll
- jimcsharp 11y agoMaybe they just smothered each other.
- walid 11y agoHmmm, why did I just feel I'm reading reddit?
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- DanielBMarkham 11y agoI believe they mean per capita, not in total deaths. (I don't know if the claim is true or not)
- metafunctor 11y agoThat could be it. Maybe also deaths per year (the Chinese Cival War took a longer time), or a combination. Statistics, damn lies, etcetera.
- tim333 11y agoFrom Pinker's book during the Korean war about 4.5 percent of the population died from disease and starvation in every year vs about 2% of the US population in total for the US Civil War. Daresay not sure how civil that was - there were other powers involved at various stages.
- douche 11y agoThere are a number of Chinese civil wars or rebellions that would have a better claim than the American Civil War. The Taiping Rebellion is one, the An Lushan Rebellion is another. The Russian Revolution is also nearly double the death toll. One could also throw in the Wars of Religion and the 30 Years War as well.
- vixen99 11y agoAnd two million as final death toll of the French Revolution according to René Sédillot (Le coût de la Révolution française).
- koder2016 11y agoMaybe there was a custom where all blood was extracted from victims' bodies and spread over the ground? Only that would make it most bloody.
- erroneousfunk 11y agoI think he meant "the most bloody Civil War in human history between 1861 and 1865 in the Western Hemisphere" Classic typo!
- usrusr 11y agoTo play the americacentric's advocate: "[...] most bloody civil war in human history, up unil then". It could easily be argued that earlier wars were either smaller, or not truly "civil" (because the rather pointless semantic distinction between internal and external wars has rarely been as clear as at the time and location of the American civil war). Personally, I'd grant that title to the 30 years war (despite it's very international nature), but that is not because of any objective reasons, I just happen to live in a landscape culturally shaped by it.