To 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 sm

To 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.