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15. Second Congo War
2.5-5.4M deaths: Central Africa 1998-2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War
14. Thirty Years War
3-11.5M deaths: Europe 1618-1648
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
13. Napoleonic Wars
3.5-6M deaths: Europe 1803-1815
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars
12. Russian Civil War
5-9M deaths: Russia 1917-1922
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War
11. Chinese Civil War
8M deaths: China 1927-1949
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War
10. Conquests of Tamerlane
8-20M: Eurasia 1370-1405
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur
9. Dungan Revolt
8-20.7M: China 1862-1877
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_Revolt_(1862%E2%80%9377)
8. Conquest of the Americas
8.4-137.75M deaths: Americas 1492–1691
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas
7. An Lushan Rebellion
13-36M deaths: China 755-763
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_Rebellion
6. World War 1
20M deaths: World Wide 1914-1918
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
5. Taiping Rebellion
20-100M deaths: China 1850-1864
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
4. Qing Dynasty Conquest of Ming Dynasty
25M deaths: China 1616-1662
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_conquest_of_the_Ming
3. Three Kingdoms War
36-40M deaths: China 184-280
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms
2. Mongol Conquests
40-70M deaths: Eurasia 1206-1324
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasions_and_conquests
1. World War 2
40-60M deaths: Worldwide 1939-1945
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Sidenote--The Second Sino-Japanses War accounted for 25M of the deaths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
Waaahmbulance
Humans are lovely.
Mohead12
Conquest of America wasn't a war. That's just ignorant to believe it was.
heril
Now rank them by the percentage of world population.
devtek
Those WW2 numbers are highly under estimated.The soviets themselves lost almost 50 mil people. Colonization one does not belong. Not 1 War.
quadralol
None of these lists ever talk about the Seven Years War which was arguably the true first World War.
bb2b
China's really good at killing itself.
DapperBlook
The fact that you didn't list the skeleton war proves this list is bunk.
MyNameIsJesusAndIStealHubcapsFromCars
me at first image without reading title; wow, that's a lot of dead people for a 15 second war.
YourSocksHaveHoles
Death variance is highly questionable
DavidBowieFlyingInOnATigerMadeOfLightning
my roommate says you're a portland timbers fan from your username and that is awesome
thersc
read it as "15 Second Congo War" and wondered how so many people could die in such a short time :/
Whatwhatinthehutt93
I've played enough dynasty warriors to know the three kingdoms war.
thesplashingblumpkins
三国杀
DavidBowieFlyingInOnATigerMadeOfLightning
I have played a lot of those, that's why I picked the picture I did for the three kingdoms war. DW7 gets the story the best
sugar3
LUI BUI
itsfuckingcoldherealways
Funny how we were never taught about Africa's wars at all. Just the 'white men came' part
AllFuckingUsernamesAreTaken
15 Deadliest Wars in World History: by confirmed death count...gives estimates...WHY
BadTaiming
Human population control is a messy business.
Jbourne007
I'd really like to see these ranked with time factored in. WWI should be #2 with casualties/year.
AtricksyHobbitwithtaters
It's hard to imagine a war with as many death counts as WWII happened barely a life time ago.
UrTwiN
How can a margin of 80m deaths be called "confirmed" ? Seems like wild speculation to me.
MandaloreTheODST
I'm gonna get downvoted but I'd like to add that most of those death from the "conquest of America" can be attributed to disease most of /2
MandaloreTheODST
The Spanish and other Euroes didn't know much about at the time. A lot of it was unintentional but still, that doesn't make it better.
Jbourne007
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic" - Joseph Stalin
IDoNotHaveAMiddleName
could have been his motto
Locolarue
He would know, the bastard.
imbatron
"If you kill a man, you're a murderer. If you kill many, a conqueror. Kill them all and become a god." - Age of Empires 2
NoobUnicorn
You are forgetting black Friday.
Aarent82
Think how big of a population China would have now if those wars never happened.
Pullout69
Larger population likely would have resulted in more fold shortages and epidemics at some point.
DavidBowieFlyingInOnATigerMadeOfLightning
Vietnam was 800,00-3.8M
HPTradecraft
Do we have a body count for the War on Drugs? Really curious to see if anyone has those numbers.
HPTradecraft
Downvotes? Really? It's a legit question.
Blamblam101
Good point. They'll probably say it was just a police action like Vietnam. ;)
CommieShillPaidBySoros
2nd: 40-70 M , 1st: 40-60 M.....something seeems off, but i can't put my finger on it....
Nackblad
I'd say that's because of how much longer the conquests were. 6 years compared to 118.
HolyStalactite
Wow the 30 years war lasted thirty years, like at the beginning they set a time limit, after 30 years, whoever has the best K/D wins
Valyrus
Was more of an 80 years war for the dutch though.
MrJBK99
China knows how to war
CirB
One of the reasons being the way their historic wars were fought (untrained, conscripted masses)
sandiegosd
also, the Art of War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War
DavidBowieFlyingInOnATigerMadeOfLightning
In the Three Kingdoms wars the Wu kingdom royalty famed themselves in being descendants of Sun Tzu
Commander42
China has 6 out of 15 with significant contribution in at least 2 other wars and is till the second most populace country in the world.ಠ_ಠ
beartato
The Taiping Rebellion is also speculated as to why China is so anti-religion.
DavidBowieFlyingInOnATigerMadeOfLightning
They also have always had a ton of people for most of their history
AkwardBearHug
Yeah I was about to say how do they still outnumber us? Sooo many have died
nelshai
They tend to have a couple hundred years between their wars filled with relative peace. Europeans generally only had a few decades at most.
docweird
What's a few dozen million people when you have a billion?
adntom
Brazillion*
docweird
Is that more or less than bazilliongazillionmillion?
TheLastPaladin
Just so we're clear, the 100mil high count for #8 includes the massive outbreaks of smallpox and other plagues the Europeans had carried -->
TheLastPaladin
with them, and for which the Native Americans had no resistance or immunity. Furthermore, the colonization was a process lasting 400 -->
TheLastPaladin
years. It wasn't a war, so much as a series of expansions under the misguided doctrine of manifest destiny.
SquirtleSquad420
Many Natives died of European diseases without ever seeing or hearing about any Europeans. Fucking scary to think about.
bntli
You should do one in proportion to total population size. King Phillips war is one not many Americans know about
DavidBowieFlyingInOnATigerMadeOfLightning
I thought about that, that would be pretty interesting
procrasturbation
Nor many Europeans either.
bntli
King Phillips war didn't happen in Europe though
procrasturbation
True, but Europeans were involved.
bloatedplutocrat
RE: Conquest of Americas. If your "Confirmed death count" has a 130 million margin of error, I don't know if "confirmed" is the right word.
FuckTheRepostPolice
Re: like, most of these.
northcarolinaisbeststate
There will never really be a confirmed either. Archaeologists are still divided on this. It's near impossable b/c most Natives didn't write
ScourgeOf
Neither was it a single war or effort, the timespan count is ridiculous, and most scholars point to disease being the real culler there.
Mmmmmk
Had the same concern.
bntli
Lmao
DicksTakeDickpicsWithSelfieSticks
I think a death count somewhere between 0 and infinite is pretty much confirmed.
DavidBowieFlyingInOnATigerMadeOfLightning
Confirmed as in the lower end. There is a lot of variance in some of these wars
meloncanister
but its not a war. there were many small wars against tribes and such. Might as well just call ww1/ww2 and everything in between the same
bloatedplutocrat
Fair enough sir.
meloncanister
war.
IronMagnus
And 200 years is quite the time span for a 'war'
WhatzitTooya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War
tubmedown
More like genocide, but yeah
iatha
You've never played Civilization, I see
thatoneguywhoyouthoughtwasryanrenaldssexclamation
But a war none the less.
barrocoyote
Not really though, no.
Meltemi
More a series of wars than a war. It's not even the same polities unless you decide to lump all the locals together as generic "natives."