1000 years of war in 5 minutes
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This animation illustrates all important battles that took place over the last ten centuries in the planet. The sizes of the explosions and labels are proportional to the number of casualties. One thousand years of war are represented in five minutes. The music is “Ride Of The Valkyries” by Richard Wagner. The data comes from the Wikipedia article, List of Battles.
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did not know that Africa is such a peaceful place
if you watch closely you’ll notice that over 50% of all the battles in this take place in the middle east/ European area on the world map.
Fail, white man’s history is more important?
When were all the native americans killed in that video?
The huge, huge majority of native americans were killed by disease, not war.
Diseases are biological weapon.
Where the f**k was gettysburg?
damn Europe….bastards won’t take a breath before blowing eachother up again and again
You do realise that data about wars on the American continent isn’t in this clip until after Columbus discovered it? And even the first hundred years after that or so, there isn’t much data about that part of the world. It’s not that there was less blowing up, there’s just less recorded history of it happening. (And yes, so many countries in such a small place begets lots of wars.)
It is a little bit of both - less recorded history and less blowing up; that is until the white man introduced both of these to the American continent.
What about India? It has good recorded history. You don’t see it blowing up till the white man came to its shores.
WWII made me laugh…
we’ll I think that makes you the only one in history you ****
I think she just means like the amount of kabooooms… duh…
We’ve become more efficient at killing in large #’s. “Better” weapons…
Eurocentric video is eurocentric.
where the 1453 siege of byzantine?
Wow, proof war and destruction was invented in Europe and exported throughout the world. That or this list of battles is far far from complete.
you ignored the Aleutian Islands Campaign…
Vietnam?!
The video’s description clearly states all *important* battles.
How can you say the military conflict in Vietnam was not *important*? I’m sure lots of people find it important.
How could this retard forget the Vietnam war?
Damn.. Europe going to start war again over financial markets!
Okay, first of all, enough with the anti-Anglo Saxon prerogative hate speech. Europeans inventing and “exporting” warfare is the same hyperbolic comparison as saying that Columbus found an uninhabited America. Secondly, this is a demonstration of major battles. The source? Wikipedia. If the person compiling this data had used several sources, I think we’d see a more comprehensive coverage of war. On that note, the measurement or the extent of the damage being measured in casualties is laughable. As population increases, so does the armed forces. Of course the battles are going to be larger in population dense areas (Europe way more than Africa), but did the videomaker ever stop to consider property damage as a better indicator? Hmm, let’s humor the concept of measuring war in casualties. Exactly how were the POW and indirect civilian deaths factored in? I’m pretty sure that the Holocaust made a significant population dent. So did Stalin’s retreat to Stalingrad. Oh, what about the countless people executed by Mao’s regime? I hate to be a stickler, but the Cold War and its proxy wars are just as eligible as the skirmishes displayed. To all you idiots who are complaining about not spotting a specific battle, look up the battle, find the point in the video that corresponds to the year of that battle, then find your explosion. It’s not difficult. Also, I’m going to have to agree with Lizzie about laughing at the presentation of the World Wars. The excessive explosions is carnivalesque and too inaccurate to be taken seriously.
Buzzkill! hahahaha