Map of all wars in history for 2500 years

Hello ATS!

Recently, the Dutch project Nodegoat used an algorithm to display all battles in history for 2500 years of human existence. As a result, this interactive map appeared



Source with the map

During the study, the Dutch studied 12703 wars. Of these, about 8000 thousand were able to document. They were included in the selection. Then the computer plotted the battle sites on the map.

The results of the study were shocking!

According to the interactive map, the European continent turned out to be the largest arena of military conflicts. France, Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain are in the lead. Moreover, Great Britain was not only an active participant in wars, but also an organizer of wars. Over the past 500 years, Great Britain has organized more than 70 major wars on the continent.

It is curious how the situation developed in the United States. In the early 1600s, the first settlers arrived in America. Almost immediately, wars with the Indians began. The last official war with the Indians ended in 1920, that is, wars with the native inhabitants of America lasted for over 300 years.

If we take only major military conflicts, then the United States has participated in over 100 wars over the past 300 years, and Russia - in 22 wars. As for Europe, wars there took place like football matches - often and with pleasure.

Even such an ambiguous source as Wikipedia gives us an impressive list of wars that took place in Europe.
List of conflicts in Europe.

A natural question arises: who is the most bloodthirsty people here, and where do they live?

Thank you

In history there have been many who you might call blood thirsty. Genghis, Rome, and Alexander the great comes to mind but that was then and not now. Now we Muslims fighting each other and others as they have done throughout history. Others fighting for land or conquest of the sea. Welcome to Earth MF (my friend ) ! !

I think in Europe, the geography has much to do with it. The geography allowed distinct cultures to arise in various areas. Also, it could be noted that many areas that were not as developed would not be able to count their constant skirmishes as battle.
For instance, if skirmishes were allowed into the US civil war states, then Missouri, which was practically complete wilderness back then, would have had the most confrontations in that war yet at the same time a much lower casualty number,
Still though interesting.
One final point is that it is possible to also say that Europe's constant warring may be partially responsible for Europe skyrocket into modernity ahead of most other cultures on this planet. Of course lately we are doing our best to go in the opposite direction.

a reply to: RussianTroll

good post mate.
I do take issue with them not counting sieges though.
Apart from that it is going to take up hours and hours of my free time
Zooming out tells us that it looks like Europeans are the more likely to go to war through history...Though it could just be the greater prevalence of written history that leads to more dots.

a reply to: RussianTroll

No doubt all for profit which was enjoyed by the few.

a reply to: RussianTroll

Because we are all complete bastards.

a reply to: RussianTroll

and Russia - in 22 wars

Russia has been a huge country. It is currently involved in a warlike situation with Ukraine. But did you know that Russia had a bloody history and its past has not been easy? The country has been involved in 100s of wars since its inception. It can be divided into 4 sections.

1480
Great stand on the Ugra river
1492
First Muscovite-Lithuanian War
1495
Russo-Swedish War
1500
Second Muscovite-Lithuanian War
1507
Third Muscovite-Lithuanian War
1512
Fourth Muscovite-Lithuanian War
1534
Fifth Muscovite-Lithuanian War

1558
Livonian War
1568
Russo-Turkish War
1590
Russo-Swedish War
1605
Polish–Muscovite War
1610
Ingrian War
1632
Smolensk War
1652
Russian–Manchu border conflicts
1654
Russo-Polish War
1656
Russo-Swedish War
1676
Russo-Turkish War
1686
Russo-Turkish War
1700
Great Northern War


1722
Russo-Persian War
1733
War of the Polish Succession
1735
Russo-Austrian-Turkish War (1735–1739)
1735
Bashkir Rebellion
1741
Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743)Part of the War of the Austrian Succession
1740
War of the Austrian Succession
1744
Chukchi War (1744-1747)
1756
Seven Years' WarRussian involvement until 1762
1768
War of the Bar Confederation
1768
Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
1787
Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
1788
Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)
1792
Polish–Russian War of 1792
1796
Persian Expedition of 1796
1799
War of the Second CoalitionRussia left the coalition in 1799
1803
War of the Third Coalition
1804
Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
1806
War of the Fourth Coalition
1806
Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)
1808
Finnish War
1809
War of the Fifth CoalitionGalician campaign: minimal Russian involvement
1812
The French invasion of Russia
1813
War of the Sixth Coalition
1815
War of the Seventh Coalition
1826
Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)
1827
Battle of NavarinoPart of the Greek War of Independence
1828
Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)
1830
November Uprising
1853
Crimean War
1863
January Uprising
1877
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
1899
Boxer Rebellion
1904
Russo-Japanese War
1914
World War I

1929
Sino–Soviet conflict (1929)
1934
Soviet invasion of Xinjiang
1937
Islamic rebellion in Xinjiang (1937)
1938
Battle of Lake Khasan
1932
Soviet–Japanese Border Wars
1939
World War includes the Winter War
1945
Soviet–Japanese War (1945)
1956
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
1967
War of Attrition
1968
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
1969
Sino–Soviet border conflict
1979
Soviet war in Afghanistan

1991–1993
Georgian Civil War
1992
War of Transnistria
1992
East Prigorodny Conflict
1992–1993
War in Abkhazia
1992–1997
Civil war in Tajikistan
1994–1996
First Chechen War
1999
War of Dagestan
1999–2009
Second Chechen War
2008
Russo-Georgian War
2007–present
War in Ingushetia
2009–present
Insurgency in the North Caucasus
www.jagranjosh.com...

Just 22 wars you say , what a peaceful country.

a reply to: RussianTroll

I’m calling bs on this whole map. Australia has multiple yellow dots scattered around it… I mean wtf? It wasn’t even inhabited by any one except the native Aboriginals until the late 1700’s.

I don’t doubt there were some run ins between native tribes, but how’s that supposed to be documented and recorded?

Without even looking any further into it, it’s just obvious to me that this is nothing more than made up Russian propaganda.

a reply to: RussianTroll

Plot the evolution of humanity / society over the same map, and you'll see the exact same plot distribution.

No surprise here.

I don't agree with the title of war for every conflict and battle. For instance, many battles were fought during the Revolutionary war in America, 1775-1783. The data is a little misleading in that regard.

Land has been fought over since the beginning of time though. And still is.

We think we are special.
We think we ae clever.

Then we look at maps like this and see that we are just the same as the rest of nature on our rock-all in it together in a constant battle for territory and resources.

If we are special and clever-we need to rise above this sh1t or we will be extinct before we can escape to another planet.

originally posted by: RussianTroll

A natural question arises: who is the most bloodthirsty people here, and where do they live?

Thank you

in Russia. They are so bloodthirsty, they are killing their own, just as the US did over 100 years ago.

It's important to realize and understand bad people who did bad thing in previous generations, aren't the same people existing today. But as we see with Russia, war is the way for those who cannot reason.

a reply to: RussianTroll

A natural question arises: who is the most bloodthirsty people here, and where do they live?

Thank you

Well as you clearly don't want to acknowledge all of 60+ Russian wars posted by Gortex, maybe you are trying to hide something about that bloodthirsty comment??
Another feeble attempt at trying to blame the west for all the worlds woes.

One thing is clear from this map; no one seems to want to fight over the worthless frozen areas of the world.

Maybe now that we have ways to extract natural resources from those areas that will change.

Then you have Stalin. Historians estimates of numbers of his own people's deaths he caused vary but at least 9 million and possibly 60 million.

Talk about bloodthirsty!

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originally posted by: RussianTroll
A natural question arises: who is the most bloodthirsty people here, and where do they live?

Nope.

The natural question is ... why believe the map? It's incomplete.

Many countries wage war against others in the victim's country .. like what Russia is doing to Ukraine. The war takes place in Ukraine but the 'bloodthirsty people' aren't the Ukrainians, it's the Russians who are attacking it.

And it doesn't have all the terrorist attacks. Example - The continuing Muslim terrorist attacks in Africa, where they slaughter Christians by the hundreds at a time. Those aren't wars so they don't make it on your map.

And your map may give a dot in Vietnam showing a war, which was waged by those out of country in a proxy ... China and USA and France ... So why put the dot in Vietnam to make the Vietnamese look 'bloodthirsty', when they werent the ones only engaging in the war?

And there aren't dots for the mass killing machines that were running countries ... Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Genghis Khan, HItler, Pol Pot, etc etc. Don't they get dots for their countries .. and why just one dot when they killed more people than some wars? Killer regimes aren't there in the map.

So no. Your map is inaccurate, not complete and doesn't tell 'who is the most bloodthirsty'. Not even close.

a reply to: FlyersFan

I'm only surprised that Great Britain doesn't have "Bastards" written over it on the map.

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
Then you have Stalin. Historians estimates of numbers of his own people's deaths he caused vary but at least 9 million and possibly 60 million.

And this map doesn't give him a dot. And even if it did, it shouldn't have the same weight as a dot in Germany that only 10,000 died at a battle. So not only is the map incomplete, it is unbalanced as well. Each dot would have to be a different size based on how many dead. Stalin should have a dot that takes up half of Russia whereas a battle in Germany with 10,000 dead should be small in comparison.

It's silly to ask who is the most bloodthirsty based on an incomplete and unbalanced map that has some battles on it.

No mention of the atheist Bolsheviks who influenced Mao? Believe they were the first to “legalize” modern abortion which is the greatest quantity of murders in all known history though the Bolshevik and Mao “revolutions” account for more murdered (democide) than all wars combined in the last 2000 years.

Wasn’t there a connection to the Holomodor famine prior to Bolshevism? Khazars, Muslims, Babylonian Talmud, International Bankers and “The State of Israel”?

Didn't the Khazars, who sported a hexagram shield, have a vendetta against their defeat from Ukraine?

“Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.”
Gal4

“And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.”Rev18

“He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.” Is2

“In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek” Gal3

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: RussianTroll

Plot the evolution of humanity / society over the same map, and you'll see the exact same plot distribution.

No surprise here.

Yes. In particular the Dutch study doesn't seem to take into account population growth. Here is an interesting data visualization animation that shows the growth of population over the globe vs time.

www.youtube.com...

Up until the beginning of the age of global exploration (1492), the large majority of the world's population was concentrated in the areas of historical Han China, historical India, and the historical Roman Empire. World population at that time was about 425 Million. Because population grows exponentially, population was 4 times as great by 1900, and 14 times as great in 2000. If you could plot number of wars per capita, you might even find that the number has gone down with time.