The sad first place in the list of the bloodiest conflicts in Russia is firmly occupied by the Great Patriotic War, which lasted from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945. True, at that time Russia was not a sovereign state, but was part of the USSR as the largest republic in terms of area. The victory over the Hitlerite coalition led by Nazi Germany came at the cost of colossal exertion of all forces, mass heroism and self-sacrifice.
The allies (USA, Great Britain, and to a much lesser extent France) also contributed to the overall victory, but the main burden of the war fell on the USSR.
The exact number of victims, including the dead military personnel and civilians, has not yet been determined. According to the latest data, it is about 27 million people - this is the population of a large European state. In the entire Soviet Union, there were almost no families left where there was not or was not a loved one. During this war, the winters were incredible, it was this fact that played into the hands of our country.
Memorable bloody wars of Russia
A very difficult test was also the Civil War, which took place in most of Russia from March 1918 to November 1920 (and in Far East it continued until the autumn of 1922). The war was characterized by extreme bitterness, intransigence of the parties. However, this is a characteristic feature of all civil wars, when the son goes against the father, and the brother against the brother. According to historians, the approximate number of victims of the Civil War (including those who died from starvation and epidemics) is from 8 to 13 million people.
Such a large difference in the estimates is due to the unsatisfactory accounting for losses in the armies of both sides, as well as the loss of many archival documents in subsequent years.
The First World War, in which our country participated from August 1914 to March 1918, also brought enormous damage to Russia. The losses of one army amounted to about 2.5 million people. And according to some historians - about 3.2 million. The exact number of civilian casualties in the combat zone is still unknown.
Also very bloody was the Patriotic War of 1812, when the losses of the Russian army killed and died from wounds and diseases amounted to about 210 thousand people.
And in Russo-Japanese War, which took place from 1904 to 1905, our losses, according to various estimates, ranged from 47 thousand to 70 thousand people.
Throughout its history, mankind has been in a state of continuous war. Every year, conflicts arise that are resolved not with the help of words and negotiations, but with the help of weapons and the deaths of thousands of innocent people. The struggle is for territory, natural and human resources. IN chronological order from the oldest to the latest major war, we list and describe a little the terrible pages of the history of the globe.
Rebellion of Ai Lushan (755-763)
long time alone bloody war remained in the history of mankind Civil War in China. Known as the Ai Lushan Mutiny. During this time, China was ruled by the Tang Dynasty. In the service of the emperor was Ai Lushan, who achieved influence in several border provinces.
In 755, he raised a rebellion against the current ruler and proclaimed himself the new emperor. Despite the fact that in 757 the leader of the rebels was killed in a dream, his comrades-in-arms in the struggle for power. They were able to completely suppress the uprising in the country 8 years after the outbreak of unrest in February 763. During the conflict, according to various sources, from 13 to 36 million people died, which is equal to the population of modern Canada 34 million people, and in those days it was 15% of the total population of the planet.
Formation and wars of the Mongol Empire of the 13th-15th centuries
The Mongol Empire is the largest state that has ever existed on Earth. The maximum dimensions reached 24 million square kilometers, a huge empire, on the territory of which many different peoples lived. The formation of the Empire was started by the great warrior Genghis Khan, who united the warring tribes under his leadership.
After the formation of the Mongolian state at the beginning of the 13th century, they conducted continuous military campaigns. For all the time of the wars waged by the Mongol Empire until its collapse in 1480, an order of 60 million people(the population of modern Italy), at that time it was from 10 to 17% of the population of the entire globe.
The coming to power of the Manchu dynasty (1616-1662)
Another struggle for power in China led to death 25 million people it was precisely so many lives that the coming to power of the Manchu dynasty of the last ruling imperial dynasty of China cost. Under the leadership of Nurkhatsi, who united dozens of tribes under his leadership and moved to conquer all of China.
The ruling Ming dynasty at that time had an overwhelming numerical advantage, but due to the stupid command, it suffered a crushing defeat. Despite the death of Nurhatsi in 1626, it was no longer possible to stop the bloodshed. During the struggle for power, about 5% of the world's population, in numerical terms, the population of modern North Korea, died.
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)
The wars waged by France under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte in Europe and Africa. Napoleon, who came to power on November 9, 1799, had huge plans to seize power not only in France, but also to establish dominance throughout Europe. These wars took place not only on the battlefield, but also at the diplomatic table, the rulers of states were looking for benefits from diplomatic alliances.
Depending on military successes, new and interrupted existing treaties between countries were concluded. Therefore, the Napoleonic Wars consist of various kinds of military conflicts in which there were many different alliances and allies, including: the Third Coalition of 1805, the Fourth Coalition of 1806-1807, the Fifth Coalition of 1808-1809, the Patriotic War of 1812, and so on . During the wars in which most of the countries of Europe were drawn, according to historians, about 3-4 million people, which is the population of present-day Croatia.
World War I (Great War), (1914-1918)
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the political situation in Europe was tense to the chapel, Germany and Great Britain fought for influence both in Europe and Africa. The assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo was the last straw, and the world plunged into war. A month later, on July 28, 1914, full-scale clashes began.
This military conflict ended on November 11, 1918. After the end of the war with geographical map disappeared, four great empires: Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and German. As a result, 34 states from all over took part in World War 1 the globe. Died during the war about 65 million people(20 million directly in the fighting and about 45 million people from the mass epidemic of the Spanish flu). Losses in battles in this war are equal to the population of modern Romania.
Participation in World War I, the weakening of the power of the tsar, led to the revolution of 1917 and the collapse of imperial power in Russia. Civil war broke out on the ashes tsarist empire. A struggle for power began between the Bolsheviks and the "white movement". Each opposing side pursued its own goals and ideals.
Some wanted a return to the old system, others built new country where power should belong to the people, others robbed and killed, taking advantage of the chaos that arose in the country. In this fratricidal struggle died according to various estimates 5.5 to 9 million people. This is the number of people currently living in Belarus.
World War II (1939-1945)
After the defeat in World War I, the German people needed a new leader who would lead the country to new heights. Such a leader was Adolf Hitler, who came to power in Germany. It is with the name of this person that the most terrible and bloody times that the population of our planet has ever experienced have been associated. The Second World War lasted for a long 6 years, from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945, 62 countries out of 73 that existed on Earth at that time took part in it. 80% of the world's population was involved in this conflict.
The battle took place on the ground (on three continents), in the air and even under water (rivers, seas and oceans). In this war, for the first time and the only time so far, a terrible weapon was used - nuclear. According to historians, the war claimed the lives of 40 to 72 million people. In our time, the population of only 18 countries exceeds the number of those who died in this terrible battle for peace on Earth.
There was not a long period in the history of the existence of mankind for people to do without wars. Unfortunately, there have always been wars. Some of them were so cruel that tens of millions of people became victims. Online magazine Factinteres collected the most brutal wars in the history of mankind.
Conquest of the Americas
- Dead: about 10-130 million people
The beginning of this war is attributed to the beginning of the 10th century, when Europeans were just beginning to colonize South and North America. The very beginning of colonization was laid not far from the shores of present-day Canada. The most bloody battles fall on the period from 1492 to 1691. For almost two hundred years, several tens of millions of people have died. Unfortunately, historians cannot calculate the exact number of losses, because. even to this day, the number of the indigenous population of South and North America is not known.
Lushan uprising
- Dead: about 13-36 million people
This bloody war almost led to the collapse of the great empire of China. This war claimed lives from 755 to 763. During this time, several tens of millions of people died. Historians still cannot give exact data, but most researchers agree that the figure is close to exactly 36 million dead. At the time, that number was almost 60 percent of China's population.
World War I
- Dead: Approximately 18 million people
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Almost everyone in school studied the history of the First World War. All of Europe was engulfed in the fire of war, in which more than 18 million people died, including 7 million ordinary civilians.
Taiping rebellion
- Dead: about 20-30 million people
The Taiping Rebellion began in 1850 and continued until 1864. Most of the deaths were surprisingly not from guns. The fact is that at that time a famine of the population began in China, which in turn led to an epidemic of plague.
Second Sino-Japanese War
- Dead: Approximately 25-30 million people
The hostilities between 1937 and 1945 were the bloodiest military operations in Asia. Then more than 25 million people became victims, and most of them were civilians. The number of military dead is estimated at 4 million people.
Mongol invasion
- Dead: 40-70 million people
The Mongol Empire at one time was a huge and powerful state. The constant hostilities that the Mongol Empire carried out led to the fact that the bubonic plague appeared in the state, which destroyed several tens of millions of people.
The Second World War
- Dead: about 60-65 million people
It is the Second World War It is considered the bloodiest war in the entire period of human existence. 62 countries of the world took part in this war (at the time of hostilities there were only 73 states on the planet). Hundreds of millions of people became unwitting participants in this war. The losses from the war amounted to more than 60 million people.
In the history of mankind, various wars occupy a huge place.
They redrawn maps, gave birth to empires, destroyed peoples and nations. The earth remembers wars that lasted more than a century. We recall the most protracted military conflicts in the history of mankind.
1. War without shots (335 years old)
The longest and most curious of the wars is the war between the Netherlands and the Scilly archipelago, which is part of Great Britain.
Due to the lack of a peace treaty, it formally went on for 335 years without firing a shot, which makes it one of the longest and most curious wars in history, and even the war with the least losses.
Peace was officially declared in 1986.
2. Punic War (118 years)
By the middle of the III century BC. the Romans almost completely subjugated Italy, swung at the entire Mediterranean and wanted Sicily first. But the mighty Carthage also claimed this rich island.
Their claims unleashed 3 wars that stretched (intermittently) from 264 to 146. BC. and got the name from the Latin name of the Phoenicians-Carthaginians (puns).
The first (264-241) - 23 years old (began just because of Sicily).
The second (218-201) - 17 years (after the capture of the Spanish city of Sagunta by Hannibal).
The last (149-146) - 3 years.
It was then that she was born famous phrase"Carthage must be destroyed!" Pure warfare took 43 years. The conflict in total - 118 years.
Results: Besieged Carthage fell. Rome won.
3. Hundred Years War (116 years)
Went in 4 stages. With pauses for truces (the longest - 10 years) and the fight against the plague (1348) from 1337 to 1453.
Opponents: England and France.
Reasons: France wanted to oust England from the southwestern lands of Aquitaine and complete the unification of the country. England - to strengthen influence in the province of Guyenne and return those lost under John the Landless - Normandy, Maine, Anjou. Complication: Flanders - formally was under the auspices of the French crown, in fact it was free, but depended on English wool for cloth making.
Reason: claims English king Edward III of the Plantagenet-Anjou dynasty (maternal grandson of the French king Philip IV the Handsome of the Capetian family) to the Gallic throne. Allies: England - German feudal lords and Flanders. France - Scotland and the Pope. Army: English - mercenary. under the command of the king. The basis is infantry (archers) and knightly units. French - a knightly militia, led by royal vassals.
Turning point: after the execution of Joan of Arc in 1431 and the Battle of Normandy, the national liberation war of the French people began with the tactics of guerrilla raids.
Results: October 19, 1453 the English army capitulated in Bordeaux. Having lost everything on the continent, except for the port of Calais (it remained English for another 100 years). France switched to regular army, abandoned knightly cavalry, gave preference to infantry, the first firearms appeared.
4. Greco-Persian War (50 years)
Altogether, war. Stretched with lulls from 499 to 449. BC. They are divided into two (the first - 492-490, the second - 480-479) or three (the first - 492, the second - 490, the third - 480-479 (449). For the Greek policies-states - the battle for independence. For the Achaeminid Empire - captivating. 
Trigger: Ionian rebellion. The battle of the Spartans at Thermopylae is legendary. The battle of Salamis was a turning point. The point was put by "Kalliev Mir".
Results: Persia lost the Aegean Sea, the coasts of the Hellespont and the Bosporus. Recognized the freedom of the cities of Asia Minor. The civilization of the ancient Greeks entered the time of the highest prosperity, laying the culture, which, even after millennia, the world was equal to.
4. Punic war. The battles lasted 43 years. They are divided into three stages of wars between Rome and Carthage. They fought for dominance in the Mediterranean. The Romans won the battle. Basetop.ru
5. Guatemalan War (age 36)
Civil. It proceeded in outbreaks from 1960 to 1996. A provocative decision by US President Eisenhower in 1954 triggered a coup.
Reason: the fight against the "communist infection".
Opponents: Bloc "Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity" and the military junta.
Victims: almost 6 thousand murders were committed annually, only in the 80s - 669 massacres, more than 200 thousand dead (of which 83% were Maya Indians), over 150 thousand went missing. Outcomes: Signing of the "Treaty for a Lasting and Lasting Peace", which protected the rights of 23 groups of Native Americans.
Outcomes: Signing of the "Treaty for a Lasting and Lasting Peace", which protected the rights of 23 groups of Native Americans.
6. War of the Scarlet and White Roses (33 years old)
Confrontation English nobility- supporters of two tribal branches of the Plantagenet dynasty - Lancaster and York. Stretched from 1455 to 1485.
Prerequisites: "bastard feudalism" - the privilege of the English nobility to pay off military service from the lord, in whose hands large funds were concentrated, with which he paid for the army of mercenaries, which became more powerful than the royal one.
The reason: the defeat of England in the Hundred Years War, the impoverishment of the feudal lords, their rejection of the political course of the wife of the feeble-minded king Henry IV, hatred of her favorites.
Opposition: Duke Richard of York - considered the right to power of the Lancasters illegitimate, became regent under an incapacitated monarch, in 1483 - king, was killed at the Battle of Bosworth.
Results: Violated the balance of political forces in Europe. Led to the collapse of the Plantagenets. She placed the Welsh Tudors on the throne, who ruled England for 117 years. Cost the lives of hundreds of English aristocrats.
7. Thirty Years War (30 years)
The first military conflict of a pan-European scale. Lasted from 1618 to 1648. Opponents: two coalitions. The first is the union of the Holy Roman Empire (in fact, Austrian) with Spain and the Catholic principalities of Germany. The second - the German states, where power was in the hands of Protestant princes. They were supported by the armies of reformist Sweden and Denmark and Catholic France.
Reason: The Catholic League was afraid of the spread of the ideas of the Reformation in Europe, the Protestant Evangelical Union was striving for this.
Trigger: Revolt of Czech Protestants against Austrian domination.
Results: The population of Germany has decreased by a third. The French army lost 80 thousand. Austria and Spain - more than 120. After the Treaty of Münster in 1648, a new independent state, the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (Holland), was finally fixed on the map of Europe.
8. Peloponnesian War (age 27)
There are two of them. The first is the Lesser Peloponnesian (460-445 BC). The second (431-404 BC) is the largest in the history of Ancient Hellas after the first Persian invasion of the territory of Balkan Greece. (492-490 BC).
Opponents: Peloponnesian Union led by Sparta and the First Marine (Delosian) under the auspices of Athens.
Reasons: The desire for hegemony in the Greek world of Athens and the rejection of their claims by Sparta and Corypha.
Contradictions: Athens was ruled by an oligarchy. Sparta is a military aristocracy. Ethnically, the Athenians were Ionians, the Spartans were Dorians. In the second, 2 periods are distinguished.
The first is "Arkhidamov's War". The Spartans made land invasions of the territory of Attica. Athenians - sea raids on the coast of the Peloponnese. It ended in the 421st signing of the Treaty of Nikiev. After 6 years, it was violated by the Athenian side, which was defeated in the battle of Syracuse. The final phase went down in history under the name Dekeley or Ionian. With the support of Persia, Sparta built a fleet and destroyed the Athenian at Aegospotami.
Results: After the conclusion in April 404 BC. Athens lost the fleet, torn down the Long Walls, lost all the colonies and joined the Spartan alliance.
9. Great Northern War (21 years old)
There was a northern war for 21 years. She was between the northern states and Sweden (1700-1721), the opposition of Peter I to Charles XII. Russia fought mostly on its own.
Reason: Possession of the Baltic lands, control over the Baltic.
Results: With the end of the war in Europe, a new empire arose - the Russian Empire, which has access to the Baltic Sea and has a powerful army and navy. The capital of the empire was St. Petersburg, located at the confluence of the Neva River into the Baltic Sea.
Sweden lost the war.
10 Vietnam War (age 18)
The Second Indochinese War between Vietnam and the United States and one of the most destructive of the second half of the 20th century. Lasted from 1957 to 1975. 3 periods: guerrilla South Vietnamese (1957-1964), from 1965 to 1973 - full-scale fighting USA, 1973-1975 - after the withdrawal of American troops from the territories of the Viet Cong. Opponents: South and North Vietnam. On the side of the South - the United States and the military bloc SEATO (Organization of the Treaty South-East Asia). North - China and the USSR.
The reason: when the communists came to power in China, and Ho Chi Minh became the leader of South Vietnam, the White House administration was afraid of the communist "domino effect". After Kennedy's assassination, Congress gave President Lyndon Johnson carte blanche to use military force in the Tonkin Resolution. And already in March 65, two battalions of US Army Navy SEALs left for Vietnam. So the States became part of the civil Vietnam War. They applied the “search and destroy” strategy, burned the jungle with napalm - the Vietnamese went underground and responded with a guerrilla war.
Who benefits: American arms corporations. US losses: 58 thousand in combat (64% under the age of 21) and about 150 thousand suicides of American veterans of the explosives.
Vietnamese victims: over 1 million who fought and more than 2 civilians, only in South Vietnam - 83 thousand amputees, 30 thousand blind, 10 thousand deaf, after the operation "Ranch Hand" (chemical destruction of the jungle) - congenital genetic mutations.
Results: The Tribunal of May 10, 1967 qualified the US actions in Vietnam as a crime against humanity (Article 6 of the Nuremberg Statute) and banned the use of CBU-type thermite bombs as weapons of mass destruction.
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The history of mankind is the history of wars. Swiss Jean-Jacques Babel calculated that in the entire history from 3500 BC. and to this day, humanity has lived peacefully for only 292 years.
But wars were different. It is often difficult to estimate the number of those who died in a war, but if we take the minimum numbers of loss estimates, the picture is as follows.
10. Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)
The wars that Napoleon Bonaparte waged with various states of Europe from 1799 to 1815 are usually called the Napoleonic Wars. The gifted commander began to redistribute the political map of Europe even before he made the coup of 18 Brumaire and became the First Consul. Hanover campaign, the War of the Third Coalition or the Russian-Austrian-French War of 1805, the War of the Fourth Coalition, or the Russian-Prussian-French War of 1806-1807, which ended with the famous Peace of Tilsit, the War of the Fifth Coalition, or the Austro-French War of 1809, Patriotic the war of 1812 and the war of the Sixth Coalition of European Powers against Napoleon and, finally, the campaign of the Hundred Days era, which ended with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, claimed the lives of at least 3,5 million people. Many historians double this figure.
9. Russian Civil War (1917-1923)
More people died in the civil war that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia than in all Napoleonic Wars: no less 5,5 million people, and according to bolder estimates, all 9 million. And although these losses amounted to less than half a percent of the world's population, for our country the war between the Reds and the Whites had the most severe consequences. No wonder Anton Ivanovich Denikin canceled all awards in his army - what awards in a fratricidal war? And, by the way, it is in vain to think that the Civil War ended in 1920 with the Crimean evacuation and the fall of the White Crimea. In fact, the Bolsheviks managed to suppress the last pockets of resistance in Primorye only in June 1923, and the fight against the Basmachi in Central Asia dragged on until the early forties.
8. Dungan uprising (1862)
In 1862, the so-called Dungan uprising against the Qing Empire began in northwestern China. Chinese and non-Chinese Muslim national minorities - Dungans, Uyghurs, Salars - revolted, according to Bolshaya Soviet Encyclopedia, against the national oppression of the Chinese-Manchu feudal lords and the Qing dynasty. English-speaking historians do not fully agree with this and see the origins of the uprising in racial and class antagonism and in the economy, but not in religious strife and rebellion against the ruling dynasty. Be that as it may, but which began in May 1862 in Weinan County, Shaanxi Province, the uprising spread to the provinces of Gansu and Xinjiang. There was no single headquarters of the uprising, and in the war of all against all, according to various estimates, it suffered from 8 up to 12 million people. As a result, the uprising was brutally suppressed, and the surviving rebels were sheltered Russian empire. Their descendants still live in Kyrgyzstan, South Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
7. Ai Lushan Rebellion (8th century AD)
The era of the Tang Dynasty is traditionally considered in China to be the period of the highest power of the country, when China was far ahead of the contemporary countries of the world. And the civil war at that time was to match the country - grandiose. In world historiography, it is called the Ai Lushan uprising. Thanks to the location of Emperor Xuanzong and his beloved concubine Yang Guifei, the Turk (or Sogdian) in the Chinese service, Ai Lushan concentrated enormous power in the army in his hands - under his command were 3 of the 10 border provinces of the Tang Empire. In 755, Ai Lushan rebelled and next year proclaimed himself emperor of the new Yan Dynasty. And although already in 757 the sleeping leader of the uprising was stabbed to death by his trusted eunuch, it was possible to pacify the rebellion only by February 763. The number of victims staggers the imagination: according to the smallest account, died 13 million people. And if you believe the pessimists and assume that the population of China decreased at that time by 36 million people, then you have to admit that the rebellion of Ai Lushan reduced the then population of the world by more than 15 percent. In this case, if you count by the number of victims, it was the largest armed conflict in the history of mankind until World War II.
6. Firstworld war (1914-1918)
The hero of Francis Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby called it "a belated migration of the Teutonic tribes." It was called the war against war, the Great War, the European War. The name with which she lived in history was coined by the military columnist for The Times, Colonel Charles Repington: The First World War.
The starting shot of the world meat grinder was the shot in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. From that day until the armistice on November 11, 1918, died by the most modest measure 15 million. If you come across the number 65 million, don’t be alarmed: it also included all those who died from the Spanish flu, the most massive flu pandemic in the history of mankind. In addition to the mass of victims, the result of World War I was the liquidation of four empires: Russian, Ottoman, German and Austria-Hungary.
5. Wars of Tamerlane (14th century)
Remember Vasily Vereshchagin's painting "The Apotheosis of War"? So, originally it was called "The Triumph of Tamerlane", and all because the great eastern commander and conqueror loved to build pyramids from human skulls. I must say that there was no shortage of material: for 45 years aggressive campaigns lame Timur - in Persian Timur-e-Lang, and in our opinion Tamerlane - laid down, no less, more than 3.5 percent of the world's population in the second half of the 14th century. Minimum - 15 million, or even all 20. Wherever he just did not go: Iran, Transcaucasia, India, Golden Horde, Ottoman Empire– the interests of iron chrome stretched widely. Why "iron"? But because the name Timur, or rather Temur, is translated from Turkic languages like "iron". By the end of Tamerlane's reign, his empire stretched from Transcaucasia to Punjab. Emir Timur did not manage to conquer China, although he tried - death interrupted his campaign.
4. Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)
In fourth place is again China, which is not surprising: the country is inhabited. And again, the times of the Qing Empire, that is, turbulent: the opium wars, the Dungan uprising, the Yihetuan movement, the Xinhai revolution ... And the most bloody uprising of the Taipings, which claimed lives by the most conservative estimates 20 million people. The indiscreet increase this figure to 100 million, that is, up to 8% of the world's population. The uprising that began in 1850 was essentially peasant war- disenfranchised Chinese peasants rose up against the Manchu Qing dynasty. The goals were the most benevolent: to overthrow the Manchus, drive out foreign colonialists and create a kingdom of freedom and equality - the Taiping heavenly kingdom, where the very word Taiping means "Great Tranquility". The uprising was led by Hong Xiuquan, who decided that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ. But in a Christian way, that is, mercifully, it did not work out, although the Taiping Kingdom was created in South China, and its population reached 30 million. "Hairy bandits", nicknamed so because they rejected the braids imposed on the Chinese by the Manchus, occupied large cities, got involved in the war foreign countries, uprisings began in other parts of the empire ... The uprising was suppressed only in 1864, and then only with the support of the British and French.
3. The capture of China by the Manchu dynasty
You will laugh, but ... Again the Qing dynasty, this time the era of the conquest of power in China, 1616-1662. 25 million victims, or almost five percent of the world's inhabitants - this is the price of creating an empire founded in 1616 by the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan in Manchuria, that is, present-day northeastern China. Less than three decades later, all of China, part of Mongolia and a large piece of Central Asia were under its rule. The Chinese Ming Empire weakened and fell under the blows of the Great Pure State - Da Qing-guo. What was won with blood held out for a long time: the Qing Empire was destroyed by the Xinhai Revolution of 1911-1912, the six-year-old Emperor Pu Yi abdicated the throne. However, he will still be destined to lead the country - the puppet state of Manchukuo, created by the Japanese invaders on the territory of Manchuria and existed until 1945.
2. Wars of the Mongol Empire (13-15 centuries)
Historians call the Mongol Empire a state that emerged in the 13th century as a result of the conquests of Genghis Khan and his successors. Its territory was the largest in world history and stretched from the Danube to the Sea of Japan and from Novgorod to Southeast Asia. The area of the empire is still amazing - about 24 million square kilometers. The number of people who died during the period of its formation, existence and collapse will also not leave indifferent: according to the most optimistic estimates, it is no less 30 million. Pessimists count all 60 million. True, we are talking about a significant historical period - from the first years of the XIII century, when Temuchin united the warring nomadic tribes into a single Mongolian state and received the title of Genghis Khan and up to standing on the Ugra in 1480, when the Muscovite state under the Grand Duke Ivan III was completely freed from Mongol-Tatar yoke. During this time, from 7.5 to more than 17 percent of the world's population died.
1. World War II (1939-1945)
The most terrible records are held by the Second World War. It is also the bloodiest - the total number of its victims is carefully estimated at 40 million, and carelessly in all 72. It is also the most destructive: the total damage of all the warring countries exceeded the material losses from all previous wars combined and is considered equal to one and a half, or even two trillion dollars. This war, and the most, so to speak, world war - 62 states out of 73 that existed at that moment on the planet, or 80% of the world's population, participated in it in one form or another. The war was on the ground, in the sky and at sea - the fighting was fought on three continents and in the waters of four oceans. It was the only conflict so far in which nuclear weapons were used.