On 11/02/2015 03:12 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On 11/2/15, Lodewijk andré de la porte <l@odewijk.nl> wrote:
2015-11-02 22:05 GMT+01:00 Razer <Rayzer@riseup.net>:
It's unlikely that all the warriors Genghis Khan ever mustered had collectively even eyeballed a million people in their lifetimes. What do you mean? Seriously! Millions of civilians a year? What???
WW1 totalled < 260k WW2 totalled < 55000k (including famine and disease related) Huh? Dunno where you figures are coming from. Let's pick the hardest hit country, for those who just maybe missed it, my current favourite country, Russia: "World War II casualties of the Soviet Union from all related causes were over 20,000,000, both civilians and military, although the statistics vary to a great extent largely because these figures are currently disputed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union
Certainly above 55k. Perhaps I missed what the numbers you posted are meant to mean. Apologies if that's the case.
If "55000k" means 55 thousand thousand it comes a little closer. A single year's deaths in Afghanistan doesn't come close to a legitimate response to my statement, and the Mongols/40M I'm not buying at all. RR