Some clues :

Douglas P. Fry : Pacified Past
Azar Gat : Warfare as an Ancient Feature
Robert L. Carneiro : Complexity and State Formation

Was the 20th century one of the most violent in human history ? (with two world wars and numerous other conflicts) ?

i also like the documentary series : “The Ascent of man” from the BBC in 1973 by Jacob Bronowski.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I think Alt-Hist-Hub put it best,

    People have nearly completely rebuilt Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

    In ancient times it was so common to end a war by murdering everyone in the losing city and destroying all its infrastructure that we had come to believe real cities like Troy and even entire ancient empires like the Hittites were myths before we found their knocked over burned and flattened ruins.

    There are several cities in central asia and the middle east that are either still or only now recovering from the amount of destruction unleashed on them during the mongol invasions. Had those events been set further back in history it is entirely possible we would never have known the names of cities like Samarkand or Baghdad.

    Even with nuclear fire capable of glassing an entire planet we have managed to be far less war like than our ancestors.

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    … i am looking into this because it seems i had this wrong belief that for a period of about 40,000 years from 50,000 to 10,000 BC most of humanity did not know warfare. i might have seen some old documentary stating something like that …
    And i also formed the belief that victorious men in warfare had a larger descendancy (increasing our tendency towards conflicts).

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      bwhahahah!

      I mean, I’m glad you’re realising that was wrong, but its a hilarious concept to have held.

      I mean, most of humanity would have been in constant battle / warfare. (low key) It’s just, that far back, societies and technology were a bit different.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    In recent years? Yeah. Conflicts around the world rose by 40% between 2020 and 2022 and another 12% from 2022 to 2023. However, before this drastic uptick, conflicts around the world were on a downward trend.