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Yeah, what did the Romans ever do for us?

• duncan_bayne 9y ago
  13 million dead: All Punic Wars: 1.0M Gladiators: 1.0M Slave Wars (Servile Wars): 1.0M Cimbri-Teutoni War: 0.3M Social War: 0.3M Mithridatic Wars: ca. 0.5M Gallic War: 1.0M Juleo-Claudian Paranoia: 0.028M Jewish Wars: 0.4M Boudica's Revolt: 0.15M Decline and Fall: 7.0M TOTAL: over 13.0M Source: http://necrometrics.com/romestat.htm http://necrometrics.com/romestat.htm
  • toomanybeersies 9y ago
    To be fair, that is over almost 1000 years. 13,000 per year is less than how many die each year in Mexico due to drug violence, and much less than the Syrian Civil war.
  • Cozumel 9y ago
    It's a Monty Python reference. /sigh
    • duncan_bayne 9y ago
      Yeah, I got that :) But it's also a valid question, with a valid answer.