Since the birth of human civilization, there have been constant disputes between various races, civilizations and countries.
War is a conflict between collective interests, using violence, attack and killing as a means of armed struggle to achieve some political, economic and territorial benefits.
Wars have displaced countless people, lost their lives to war, and there have been many large-scale, long-running battles in the history of the world.
So what are the top ten wars in world history with the highest death toll?
The russian civil war, which killed about 5 million people, was a revolutionary war led by the workers and peasants in the Russian Empire in the late years of the Russian Tsarist rule and after the end of the First World War.
The war began in 1918 and lasted until 1922, when military conflicts were mainly within the Russian Empire, but armed intervention by some foreign powers led to large-scale armed conflicts in the border areas.
Russian soldiers during the Civil War
Until 1917, the success of the October Revolution led by Lenin, Russia established the world's first socialist power, defeated other domestic and foreign forces, and ended in the victory of Soviet Russia, according to Soviet Russia's post-war statistics, the number of war deaths was about 5 million.
The Napoleonic Wars began with the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Napoleon Bonaparte gradually took power in France, established the First French Empire, and lost four major defeats to the Anti-French League, as well as Napoleon's expedition to Russia, and finally defeated by the French Alliance, defeated waterloo, and ended in 1815 when France signed the Treaty of Paris with the warring countries.
There is also a theory that the Napoleonic Wars were merely napoleonic wars and conflicts with European countries, but in fact, these were just a continuation of the wars caused by the French Revolution.
Napoleon
The war, which spanned 26 years, took the lives of about 7 million people, and although Napoleon was eventually defeated, he is still the strongest military man in French history today.
Zuo Zongtang recaptured Xinjiang, with about 8 million to 12 million deaths.
Beginning in 1862, the Hui people in the area of present-day Gansu, Shaanxi Province, launched a riot, which caused many casualties in the early stages, and Britain and Russia secretly supported the Agubai regime in an attempt to separate Xinjiang from our country.
In order to recover Xinjiang, in 1875 Zuo Zongtang was appointed minister of Chincha to supervise the military affairs of Xinjiang, and in 1876 he led an army to recover Xinjiang, and after several battles, in 1877 Zuo Zongtang successfully recovered all the territory except Ili occupied by Tsarist Russia.
Zuo Zongtang's route to recover Xinjiang
After making many negotiations with Tsarist Russia, it successfully recovered Ili and ended more than a decade of civil unrest in Xinjiang, during which the Agubai regime wantonly slaughtered the people of Xinjiang, causing many civilian casualties, and the death toll included civilians and troops who died in the war.
Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang, safeguarded China's territorial integrity, smashed the British-Russian conspiracy to split Xinjiang, and is a well-deserved national hero in China's history.
The First World War was a world-wide war caused by the attempts of the old and new colonial powers in the early 20th century during the transition from capitalism to imperialism in a vain attempt to redivide the world colonies.
With the rise of capitalist countries such as Germany and Japan, the colonies around the world have basically been divided up by the old colonial countries such as Britain, France, Russia, etc., and the conflicts of interest between various imperialists have intensified, and the division of order is not equal, which eventually leads to the intensification of contradictions between countries and triggers the First World War.
first world war
From July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918, a large-scale military conflict broke out between the Allies led by Germany and Austria-Italy and the Allies, led by Britain, France, and Russia, which eventually led to a world war that killed about 15 million people as the war expanded.
The First World War brought huge economic losses to mankind, and although it objectively promoted military and scientific and technological progress, the disaster brought about by the war was irreparable.
The Golden Horde was one of the four major khanates established by the Mongol Empire, also known as the Chincha Khanate, covering parts of the territory of the Middle East, India, Central Asia, and Russia.
After the Yuan Dynasty regime established by the Mongols in the Central Plains was overthrown by Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, the four major khanates established by the Mongols still maintained their rule, and in 1419, after the Death of the Great Khan of the Golden Horde in the war, many people established themselves as khans, all thinking of reunifying the Golden Horde, and successively independent the Crimean Khanate, the Kazakh Khanate, and the Uzbek Khanate.
Golden Horde
For the next 40 years, the Golden Horde fought countless civil wars, until the last days of the Golden Horde in 1502, when the Great Hansek and Ali were defeated by the Crimean Khanate, and the Golden Horde finally came to an end for 283 years after 43 great hans.
After more than two centuries of civil unrest in the Golden Horde, the two-century civil unrest caused the deaths of about 15 million to 20 million people, and the long-term war and chaos kept the people in the territory of the Golden Horde in deep trouble for a long time.
In the 14 years since the war, the war has affected 17 provinces, including Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan, and thousands of people have participated in this war.
However, with the capture of Tianjing (present-day Nanjing), the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, by the Qing government, the fourteen-year-long peasant revolt was suppressed, resulting in the deaths of more than 20 million soldiers during this period.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement
This uprising was a powerful blow to the qing government's feudal dynastic rule and hindered the process of China's colonization, which had a profound impact on Chinese history.
In the last year of the Ming Dynasty, the peasant rebel army led by Li Zicheng captured the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty fell.
There were many reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the government agencies were corrupt, the Chongzhen Emperor failed to handle the relationship with the border generals, and mistakenly killed Yuan Chonghuan, which led to the disinterest of the monarchs and subjects, and at this time, the domestic peasants revolted, the army was exhausted, the Qing army outside the Guanwai was looking at the tiger, and during the Xiaoice River period, the domestic famine lasted for many years, which eventually led to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty that lasted for more than two hundred years.
Since Wu Sangui surrendered and released the Qing army into the customs, the Qing army began to frantically suppress the Han forces in the Central Plains, until the unification of the whole of China, the Qing army launched countless wars against the Han landlord class and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, from the Qing army into the customs to unify China, a total of about 25 million people died in the war.
The situation after the Qing army entered the customs
Although the rulers of the Qing Dynasty actively safeguarded the country's territorial sovereignty in the early stages, when pacifying the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, they bloodied Jiangnan, Jiangyin, Guangzhou and other places, burned and plundered for thirty-seven years, and the remaining population was nearly two-thirds less than the population of the Ming Dynasty.
But it has to be said that the rulers of the Qing Dynasty also made indelible contributions to safeguarding the territorial integrity of our country.
This was the war against the Tang rulers launched by the Tang generals An Lushan and Shi Siming during the Tang Xuanzong period, and it was the beginning of the tang dynasty's prosperity and decline, which took place during the Tang Dynasty, when the population of the Tang Dynasty had grown to the top of the entire Tang Dynasty.
However, since the two opposed the Tang and the outbreak of war, the population of the Tang Dynasty has shrunk sharply, the population has shrunk by more than 60%, and the rebellion was quelled under the command of the Tang general Guo Ziyi, but this civil unrest that lasted for more than a decade caused about 30 million deaths.
The marching route of the Anshi Rebellion
After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty fell into a situation of feudalism, and the long-term war brought more serious exploitation to the people, causing hundreds of people to be displaced and displaced.
After Genghis Khan unified the Mongol tribes, he and his successors conquered more than 40 countries and conquered more than 720 ethnic groups with an army of 400,000 people in 50 years, destroying tens of millions of armies in various countries alone, ruling 22% of the world's territory, and once hitting the Danube River in Europe.
At its peak, the territory of the territory reached 45 million square kilometers, accounting for more than four-fifths of the entire human world at that time, and after occupying these areas, the Mongols, in order to stabilize the rear rule, would carry out large-scale looting and massacres of the conquered city and pond countries, and established Mongol regimes such as the Golden Horde, the Chagatai Khanate, and the Ilkhanate in these areas.
Route of the Mongol Expedition to the West
During the war of the entire Mongol Empire to conquer the world, the death toll was about 30 million to 60 million, because the scope of the involvement was extremely wide, and there was no detailed statistics, but from the population comparison before and after the Mongol rule, the death toll was at least 30 million, or under the premise of not counting the fallen army.
World War II, also known as the World Anti-Fascist War, was a just war between the anti-fascist alliance and the Axis powers and their vassal states composed of the Third German Reich, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Empire of Japan.
The scope of the war includes the European battlefield, the Asian battlefield, the North African battlefield, the Pacific theater, the Atlantic battlefield and many other places, and the scope of the war is so wide that the number of people affected is the first time in the entire history of world wars.
Affected by the world economic crisis, in order to divert domestic contradictions, Germany, Italy, and Japan began to invade the outside world in a frenzied manner, Japan sent troops to occupy China's three eastern provinces, the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany, and World War II broke out in an all-round way.
With the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States declaring war on Japan, Germany invading the Soviet Union, and the Outbreak of the Soviet-German War, the scope of a war that affected the whole world reached its peak.
The situation in the countries of World War II
But with the defeat of the German army in the Battle of Stalingrad, the entire World War II took a turning point, the Allied landings in Normandy, the surrender of Italy, the occupation of Berlin by the Soviet Union, the surrender of Germany, the dropping of two atomic bombs by the United States on Japan, the surrender of Japan, and the end of World War II.
The entire war lasted 6 years, affected more than 60 countries, 2 billion people's war, caused about 70 million deaths, about 130 million people were injured, caused losses of more than 5 trillion US dollars, is the most tragic war in the history of the entire world.
War is cruel, and the people who are most hurt in war are often innocent civilians, and we in peace today should cherish this hard-won peace.