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GreenHandbag2 t1_jd7f0wa wrote

Reply to comment by General_Derangement in TIL China and India have been the population centers of the world for at least 6,000 years by aaleom

They were subject to deadly wars because of their population.

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SomeIndividual1 t1_jd8grbd wrote

implying low population country don't have just as bloody war

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GreenHandbag2 t1_jd8tsyu wrote

Kinda hard to kill 100 million people when your population is just 15 million.

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SomeIndividual1 t1_jd8vekv wrote

so let say a country of 1 million, lost 500k life. its not as bloody as a war as above?

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GreenHandbag2 t1_jd8wnq0 wrote

The whole discussion was that China only had wars with insane causality rates because they had a large population, the procentage that died was similar to European wars. You're just restating my point, maybe try reading before you comment.

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dylanjohn87 t1_jd8y90g wrote

There is more blood in 50 million people than 1 million people. So yes, a lot less bloody

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blunt_analysis t1_jdaei4a wrote

There are entire Native American/African tribes which were probably wiped completely out with ~100s of deaths. We probably don't know much about them because they didn't have expansive empires or significant written histories of such conflicts.

We probably still do cultural eradication of small groups like this every few years even today as society modernizes.

Going back into history the early european settlers were almost completely eradicated by the invading proto-indo-europeans (90%+ genetic replacement on the Y-chromosome).

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