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Weren't the world's bloodiest wars conducted after the advent of industrialization? The 20th appears to be the bloodiest century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

• dTal 10y ago
  It appears that way, but remember that the 20th century is also the most populous century. As a fraction of the total population killed, the 20th century is (probably) the most peaceful.
  • sqeaky 10y ago
    It is by a large margin. Those two wars might have fearfully awesome, but the fact that there are so many years of peace makes the 20th century the most peace Century we have completed: http://www.hsrgroup.org/docs/Publications/HSR2013/HSR_2013_Press_Release.pdf http://www.hsrgroup.org/docs/Publications/HSR2013/HSR_2013_P... Add onto that on many levels both wars were enhanced by scarcity... Germany want more in both, the assassination of the Archduke was encouraged on by a poor economy, Hitler couldn't have rose to power without a major economic crisis, there were so many failings in production and trade that might have prevented or mitigate either war. Not aging and not dying will certainly be an economic boon. People can work longer, experts can more deeply master their fields and there will be less loss in passing knowledge down to successors. So economic production will rise and almost certainly faster than it does with aging and death. Then the emotional factors in war and death... If people stop dying and live to see one war, they just might carry those lessons for the rest of lives.
• euyyn 10y ago
  Might be just that there were so many more people, thanks to industrialization.
• foota 10y ago
  Seems like this should probably be normalized by then current population.