The Top 10 Historical Wars of All Time

One of the bloodiest wars on religion, this is a massive name in our list of Top 10 Historical Wars of All Time. Much as the name suggests itself, it was a war that lasted over three decades. Thirty Year’s War was one of the longest and the most destructive conflicts in the European history. Historians have still not decided on the fact as to what started the fighting. Rather there seem to be many parallel reasons that fueled the war overtime. It grew as a religious war at first, but then developed into a continuation of the Bourbon-Habsburg rivalry. It stood for the European political destruction with the death toll of well above 5 million people.

6. Conquests by the Empire of Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBUyxub94CU

The Empire of Japan literally means the empire. The world power that had existed from the Meiji Restoration that happened on 3^rd January 1868. It existed to the enactment of the post World War II Constitution of Japan on 3^rd May 1947. Only after suffering a couple defeats and then atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended it. The Empire of Japan surrendered to the Allies on the 2^nd of September, 1945. The American involvement rather gave birth to a new constitution. It came in existence from 3^rd May, 1947 officially dissolving the Empire which had already been the reason of over 20 million deaths. No wonder it makes the list of Top 10 Historical Wars of All Time.

5. American Civil War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra92M3favxs

The American Civil War was essentially a war fought between the ‘North’ or the ‘Union’ and the South or the ‘Confederacy’. It existed by the secession of several southern slave states. It’s name also became popular as the War Between the States or simply just the Civil War. The war had its roots set on issues of slavery. The extensions of it reached into the western territories of America. More than 800,000 people were the victims in the war, making it an addition to the Top 10 Historical Wars of All Time.

3. Conquests of Timur-e-Lang

Timur was in his lifetime a controversial figure, and he remains so today. He sought to restore the Mongol Empire.  Yet his heaviest blow was against the Islamized Tatar Golden Horde. He was more at home in an urban environment rather than on the steppe. He styled himself a ghazi while operating wars that severely affected some Muslim states, including the Ottoman Empire. A great patron of the arts, his campaigns also triggered vast destruction.

World War I was one of the bloodiest global wars in the history of man-kind. It began in the summer of 1914 and lasted until November 1918. It involved all of the world’s giant powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, had mobilized. More than 9 million combatants were the victims, largely because of great technological advances in firepower without advances in mobility. Victory of Britain, France and Russia over Germany, Italy, Austria and Hungary was the result. The League of Nations came in existence after the First World War. But it failed to ensure world peace and eventually World War II happened.

World War II, or the Second World War was a global war that was underway by 1939 and ended in 1945. The war involved most of the world’s nations, including all of the great powers. Two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis took place. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilized. In a state of “total war,” the main participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort. Second World War erased the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by significant events involving the mass death of civilians, it included the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. It was the deadliest conflict in human history, resulting in 50 million to over 70 million fatalities.

Everybody should have one simple right the right to live. But sometimes people will deny innocent people these rights and murder them(genocides,ruthless dictators,civil wars,mass executions etc). Human life is precious, and we must stop practicing wars.

The Top 10 Historical Wars of All Time

10. Napoleonic Wars

9. Mongol Conquests

8. Vietnam War