In the pre civil engineer era, civilian death rates averaged around 80%, typical woman has 12 kids, 10 die before they reproduce, etc. Against those odds, worl

In the pre civil engineer era, civilian death rates averaged around 80%, typical woman has 12 kids, 10 die before they reproduce, etc. Against those odds, world war level losses are a rounding error. Its telling that the influenza epidemic after WWI killed more people than WWI.