The worst wars happened throughout mankind
Like most battles, the majority of casualties in the deadliest conflicts in history have been innocent civilians. Throughout the beginning of time, wars have been in human history. The earliest evidence of human combat points to the first fight occurring near the boundary between Egypt and Sudan some 13,000 years ago. This battle is thought to have started as a result of rivalry for resources, in this case, water. The majority of conflicts in human history have occurred for a variety of causes, including poverty, weak governmental leadership, civil unrest, religion, territorial disputes, lack of resources, and a host of other issues. After that, let’s take a look at the historically worst wars.
Second Congo War (1998–2003)
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One of the bloodiest conflicts in history and the deadliest in contemporary African history was the Second Congo War (1998–2003). Over the course of this five-year war, around 5.4 million people perished. Even while the genocides caused a significant portion of the deaths, the war’s effects on diseases and famine also contributed.
Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815)
During the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), a confederation of European states faced forth against the French Empire and its allies. The Napoleonic Wars are the collective name for a string of battles between the French Empire and the coalitions that opposed it, including the War of the Third Coalition, the Fourth, the Fifth, the Sixth, and the Seventh and Last Coalition. According to estimates, the fighting at this time killed between 3.5 and 6 million people directly or indirectly.
Thirty Years’ War
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The Thirty Years’ War, as its name suggests, took place between Catholic and Protestant governments in Central Europe from 1618 to 1648. The battles finally attracted the major European powers, leading to one of the bloodiest, deadliest, and longest wars in European history. According to estimates, 8 million people—both military personnel and civilians—died as a result of the war.
Chinese Civil War
Between the Kuomintang, which was supported by the government, and the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Civil War broke out in August of 1927. By 1950, more than 8 million people had died as a result of the murders and other atrocities committed by both sides.
Russian Civil War
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More than 9 million people died in the Russian Civil War, 8 million of whom were civilians. The conflict, which was fought between the Red Army and the White Army, lasted from 1917 to 1922, immediately following the Russian Revolutions of 1917.
The Dungan Rebellion
The Dungan Rebellion was a conflict that took place in 19th-century China’s Qing Dynasty between the Hans, an East Asian-born Chinese ethnic group, and the Huis, a group of Chinese Muslims. 20 million people died as a result of the war, mainly due to famine and migration brought on by the conflict.
Lushan Rebellion: worst wars
Between the years 755 and 763, there was a revolt in China called the An Lushan Rebellion. Although the death toll is difficult to estimate, census data from the years after the war suggests that about 36 million people—roughly two-thirds of the empire’s population—were lost.
First World War
The Central Powers and the Allies fought each other in the First World War. Despite only lasting 4 years, from 1914 to 1918, the war killed over 18 million people. About 11 million of the 18 million fatalities were caused by military people, and about 7 million were civilians.
The Taiping Rebellion: worst wars
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The Taiping Rebellion, which took place from 1850 and 1864, was yet another major conflict in China. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s Christian millenarian movement and the Qing Dynasty engaged in combat. Although there isn’t a precise figure, most estimates place the death toll from the Taiping Rebellion between 20 and 30 million.
Second Sino-Japanese War: worst wars
Between 1937 and 1945, the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is generally accepted that the Marco Polo Bridge Incident served as the catalyst for the war, which later erupted into a full-scale conflict that claimed the lives of nearly 4 million Chinese and Japanese soldiers as well as 25 million civilians.
World War II: worst wars
Almost 70 million people died in the conflict, which pitted the Allies and the Axis powers in the worst conflict in history. The war, which is notorious for its genocide against the Jewish people, also resulted in the deaths of more than 50 million civilians.
American Civil War
In terms of deaths, the American Civil War was the bloodiest and deadliest conflict ever waged in human history. The conflict stands out as one of the bloodiest conflicts ever fought in human history. The union and the states of the confederacy fought this conflict. The bloody conflict is also known as the conflict between the states. The American Civil War portrayed a situation in which simmering hostility existed between the southern and northern states of America (which had been thrust into a state of conflict due to urgent issues like the rights of the states, slavery, and sectional disputes, etc.). Between the years of 1861 and 1865, the blood feud persisted.
The Kalinga War
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One of the fiercest and bloodiest feuds in human history is attested to by the Kalinga War. The brutal conflict was fought in 261 BCE, under the Mauryan empire’s rule. Emperor Ashoka fought a war against the Kalinga state in India. The conflict was caused by Ashoka’s desire to incorporate Kalinga into his empire. Ashoka’s army attacked Kalinga, and after a bloody battle, his army was able to defeat Kalinga’s army. But, the Kalinga war was so harsh and deadly that it permanently altered Ashoka.
Dafur Conflict: worst wars
Early in 2003, rebel groups began to take up arms against Sudanese President Omar al-regime Bashir’s in Khartoum, rekindling long-simmering tensions in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. The U.S. administration later referred to the conflict’s outbreak as the first genocide of the twenty-first century. The Sudanese government equipped and funded Arab militias that became known as Janjaweed. After rebel groups won a number of notable battles against the country’s military. And ethnic cleansing against Darfur’s civilian population.
