DeepSouth, that’s just the bias in our education towards recent events. As a percentage of world population, WWII was only the 9th deadliest event in world history.
Events like the Mongol conquest, Timurlane’s campaigns, the fall of Rome, etc., all took substantially larger percentages of the world’s population.
No doubt some bad stuff went down in the 20th century, but only ignorance as to deeper history leads us to think it was some new level of violence.
Events like the Mongol conquest, Timurlane’s campaigns, the fall of Rome, etc., all took substantially larger percentages of the world’s population.
No doubt some bad stuff went down in the 20th century, but only ignorance as to deeper history leads us to think it was some new level of violence.