Deadliest Battles in Human History

This video shows the casualties count in battles in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding similar combat-related deaths) and civilian casualties during the battles. Battles in Large Scale Wars (such as World War I and World War II) are grouped in one statistic.
Large battle casualty counts are almost impossible to calculate precisely. Many of these figures are estimates, and, where possible, a range of estimates is presented. Figures display numbers of all types of casualties when available (killed, wounded, missing, and sick) but may only include number killed.
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Data Source: Wikipedia - List of battles by casualties
Music: Scott Buckley - Inflection/Helios

[@SantaCelest1na]

World: “How many wars do you want?” Europe: “Yes”

[@zacharytang3840]

hey wha bout Asia

[@SantaCelest1na]

@@zacharytang3840 a lot Wars, especially for japan before and during sengoku jidai and china but the most bloody countrys are located in europe. And i am not too much proud about it ahahah

[@rafaelglopezroman1110]

@@zacharytang3840 The problem is Europe's geography, in East Asia the geography is vast with open fields and plenty of resources and land for agriculture. For this reason China has experience brief decades of peace, and other states in the region ultimately saw China as the largest power for millenia, so there were no international power struggles or competition for the number one spot. East Asia was also isolated by deserts and mountains so nobody could ruined the status quo, until Colonialism happened. As always the Mongols are the exception.

[@nicosd3017]

África wars are mostly unrecorded.as americans

[@SantaCelest1na]

@@nicosd3017 man i am a lot sure that the american Wars are less And not larger like the europeans

[@hriday1341]

0:56 battle of kalinga was so deadly that it happened in India but people died in phillipines

[@jingaxdev5349]

They outsourced the battle

[@zuboy4272]

LOL

[@RxGADITYA]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ToddKeck98]

People had no idea there were 2 different Kalinga peoples, one is from India and the other is from the Philippines and part of the Igorot grouping.

[@hriday1341]

@@ToddKeck98 but kalinga "war" is different. It is significant in indian history as it's the deadliest battle ever fought,

[@pitaandhummus7643]

If the Mongols didn’t destroy the Iraq library we would’ve had so much knowledge about history

[@icrushchildrensdreams4556]

I like your profile picture and I know where it’s from

[@proleterriert8075]

Rest of the world: let us store great knowledge and record events that happen so future generations can look back and understand our culture, technology, our history Mongols: …. and I took that personally.

[@rushikeshreddydavari9397]

What about Nalanda university it has knowledge more than the entire books in the world

[@pitaandhummus7643]

@@rushikeshreddydavari9397 Iraq (Mesopotamia) was one of the first civilizations on earth, so we would have everything written from the beginning... around 3300BC-750BC

[@rushikeshreddydavari9397]

@@pitaandhummus7643 its different for u and us u believe that, we know about our culture np there's ntg wrong

[@shoktheiv1106]

Fun fact it is said that once the siege of Baghdad was over. The rivers were flooded with ink and the city burned for 3 days due to the sheer amount of books estimated at around 400,000

[@Desi.Superman]

Fun fact : bhaktiyar khilji, a turk, burnt 5 lakhs books in of nalanda University of bihar (india)... it burnt till 3 months...🤷‍♂️

[@shoktheiv1106]

@@Desi.Superman yes i know india also had great universities. But its destruction didnt have much of an effect to the indian people compared to the siege of baghdad. Remember, Baghdad was the biggest city at that time, the most advanced city. The Destruction of baghdad marked the end of the islamic golden age. And the end of muslim dominance around the world. Baghdad was also the center of islam. The siege of baghdad also made the land around it unfarmable so a reconstruction of the city was near impossible. The Seljuk Turks didnt bring as much destruction as the Mongols did.

[@Desi.Superman]

@@shoktheiv1106 patliputra and vijaynagar were too the most populated city of their time... destroyed by turks... And nalanda university was the university from which great mathematicians like aryabhat, Bhaskar, brahmagupt originated who invented Zero, Arithmetic, applications of zero etc... Nalanda was just one... There were tons of universities of india destroyed by turks and huns.... which include taxtila... It's destruction just pushed india a millennium back in the terms of science and technology...

[@shoktheiv1106]

@@Desi.Superman Baghdad had the same effect on muslims. It was the place where great philosophers studied for example Ibn Sina ( medicine, psychology and pharmacology to geology, physics, astronomy, chemistry and philosophy. He was also a poet) , Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizm (Father of Algebra), Al-Battani (The creator of Kitab al-Zij, which introduced new trigonometric methods for performing astronomical computations), Ibn Khaldun and more. Baghdad is literally known for its house of wisdom and techonology that was completely alien like to the people in the medieval era.

[@linhhoang1363]

What a waste of ink and firewood material

[@TNutChannel]

You realize something is wrong when there is peace for too long in europe .

[@gabrielhersey5546]

After wwii the monarchy system was Ive thrown and banking took over. Economics rule Europe now, not monarchies. Yes tragically banks are corporations. There are no countries or governments any more, just corporations owning everything

[@hereonearth4303]

It's make me feel very sad about European countries but this peace comes from big lessons from war European countries knowing very well that war is bad always

[@Swarmah]

@chico uh oh, germans in ww2 killed barely any of my people, and then the sovifaschists came, and erradicated over 30% of population, and imported more russians than there were locals. And now country is like 50/50, locals and russkis. And in past 20 years, population has declined from 2.4 mil to 1.9, tho pre ww2 it was 2.5 mil, and it was like 90% local people.

[@troelembiid6970]

@Heinrich Heinrich That’s false. Hitler encouraged large families for a large population growth.

[@highground7923]

@Heinrich Heinrich maybe you shouldn’t have invaded nearly the entire continent

[@andreadanieli4943]

Siege of Baghdad : Remains deadliest battle for almost a 1000 years ww1 and 2: Allow us to introduce ourselves

[@xenotypos]

It was mostly civilian massacres though. Not actual military casualties.

[@arty5876]

Arabs probably overrating their casialities 3 times, but we don't know the thruth

[@mahdimehdi445]

@@arty5876 well baghdad was the most populated city in the world but not in 1258 ,after 11 th century baghdad began to decline even it declined but stayed more than all the europeans cities ;only india and china and cairo were more populated ,it reached 3 million at it's peak in 800-920,but 2 m is so overrated ,even i m arab

[@RacingGuy570]

Battle of Platea duration: +2300 yrs *are you sure about that*

[@gonzalo20000]

@@mahdimehdi445 except for Constantinople.

[@gamingunicorn6475]

"1 death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic." Joseph Stalin.

[@Nonamelol.]

A million*

[@moriarty5863]

What an inspirational man. He should lead a country or something.

[@gokayakcay7093]

I'm so happy that guy didn't lead a country. He would probably use soldier instead of bullet in wars.

[@user-kt8rx6np4r]

it fake ,stop spreading rumor

[@ChestaFA]

@@gokayakcay7093 nice one lol

[@dillipsamanta6068]

0:57 One correction The battle of Kalinga was fought in Eastern India Not in South China Sea

[@ritzx5470]

yeah

[@juliusnepos6013]

That is actually Kalinga province highlighted which is why the misplacement of the location happened

[@Itz_Sophia19]

Correction: the highlighted is not in the south china sea

[@shreyaspatel424]

1900s the deadliest century in the History!

[@ralphsaavedra2326]

Correct you are, lad. The 20th Century is a true global game changer

[@saffvan9532]

But 21st century just started

[@egyptianwarrior2594]

It is very wrong what about ganghis khan

[@thesily]

20th century is might new world peace, since war has stopped a lot...

[@sdaewdaws]

Jakub Svoboda 20th century was the 1900’s. 21st century is the 2000’s

[@MuhammadAhmad-pl4sj]

Battle of Plataea remained in top 5 for 2393 years! Greeks were really serious ..

[@iraholden3606]

@Matt M because those absolutely are not the actual numbers, no historian takes them seriously

[@iraholden3606]

@Matt M what are you smoking?

[@iraholden3606]

@Matt M no they don't lol

[@gordonchao3074]

Battle of Changping was on the top for 1200 years and top 3 for 2100 years, we Chinese are also serious 🙂

[@leilasantoslopes2303]

@@gordonchao3074 Are you seriously bragging about war?

[@afsanakhan7071]

Europe has fought the series of deadliest battles in human history. Today they are United like nothing ever happened. This gives me hope for rest of the world.

[@Luis-mq5ey]

Because of christianity. No other force is stronger than this.

[@Luis-mq5ey]

@@lighto33 You completely ignore the role of christianity in uniting the people's of europe for centuries. What they did to other people using christianity is meaningless in this discussion, the point is the uniting force behing european countries. period. By your comment I can get you're a self hating white or a person who try to get the moral high ground in no related discussion. Which in turn shows that you are an emotion driven person that gets easy manipulated. Too bad for you

[@macromicro1715]

I mean the Europeans were never united by Christianity. Indeed during its predominance Europe was one of the bloodiest, cruelest, and most backward places in the world. Where kingdoms slaughtered and fought for everything under the sun. Even within the Christian church itself there were a multitude of schisms that led to further conflict between the European powers. Not least the Protestant reformation. They were only ever unified after decades of bitter war and economic turmoil finally left them to weakened to keep squabbling. Before that though you’d be hard pressed to find a group of nations more prone to pointless violence and petty conflict for territory and prestige.

[@dangercat9188]

Don't be too confident in that. It IS europe after all.

[@hissukka6619]

@@Luis-mq5ey 😐

[@kordian1977]

5:35 Should be "Battle of Grunwald - Polish - Lithuanian - Teutonic War". Not battle of Ankara, that was different conflict.

[@Methodius7]

Sometimes they count just battles sometimes whole campaigns. Its really inconsistent.

[@agabekarthur777AAA]

and sometime a whole war.

[@TheZeldaCinema]

And sometimes they slow down to make it easier to see battles and numbers but from 1800s onwards they speed it up for dramatic effect

[@dash4800]

Yeah, this video is mostly nonsense. Not really useful for anything

[@dominictoretto9645]

@@dash4800 i can tell you for sure they missed a very large amount in middle east and India.

[@austrakaiser4793]

They didn't even count in the Great Emu War, I am disappointed.

[@drmustafa3538]

Baghdad: I saw the hell Stalingrad: my brother i'm the hell

[@zakariaalami1491]

Cant compare 1248 to 1943 , baghdad was the largest city in the world its like murduring the citizens of tokyo today its about 38 millions

[@christophvonpezold4699]

@@zakariaalami1491 if you look at the approximate population of the world at the time, the siege of baghdad killed ~0.5% of the human population _of the world_ at the time

[@shoktheiv1106]

@@christophvonpezold4699 Baghdad was the center of scientific discoveries and many scholars and philosophers lived in Baghdad. During the siege mostly the citizens died. But in the battle for Stalingrad most casualties were for the army not the city

[@christophvonpezold4699]

@@shoktheiv1106 Your point? You seem to agree that the siege of baghdad was a horrific event

[@shoktheiv1106]

@@christophvonpezold4699 just giving extra info

[@piotrzwirowski8435]

The ancient battles are severely overestimated. While according to Herodotus there were 400 000 participants at the battle of Plataea modern estimates suggest around 100 000

[@justicartiberius8782]

Ancient and medieval records tend to highly exaggerate. Which is also because of the lack of documents and more like tales and gossip that remembered those battles. Not to mention that people couldn't write, read or count, which made it difficult to state actual numbers and facts.

[@JirkaGasik]

@@justicartiberius8782 yeah, but even if the author searched Wikipedia, they must have realized something is terribly wrong in their numbers. I mean, 150, 000+ casualties at Catalaunian Fields? They were hardly that many soldiers at the beginning of the battle.

[@rezulc8347]

I like how it speeds up during times of peace, it is interesting to note that there are periods of 100-200 years with no major battles(with record casualties)

[@somerandomdude4546]

Europe now : let's talk about unity and peace Also Europe history:

[@Alfred-my6wc]

@ᚺᚪᛁᛞᛖᚱ European have no right to talk about peace.

[@Hungabrigoo]

@@Alfred-my6wc Then just keep killing each other, genius.

[@Alfred-my6wc]

@@Hungabrigoo You talking to me..? Why..?

[@k..]

​@ᚺᚪᛁᛞᛖᚱ without the third nuclear capability of the world Ukraine was attacked by the LNR and DNR (2014-today Europe)

[@dansolo5854]

Not a surprise Europe has tasted the path of modern warfare and it ain’t sweet.

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

Keep in mind that the population was way lower back in the days, even just 70 years ago.

[@Mrjlp]

2,5 billion in WW2

[@stryrmunich]

@@Mrjlp that's the population of India and China combined today!!

[@mustard4762]

except for China and India who had already massive armies

[@Brian_Duke]

Yeah, if we look at it from the perspective of the world's population, WWII was nothing compared to the Mongol invasion, where more percentage of the world's population died.

[@stryrmunich]

@@Brian_Duke Is it true that Mongols commited some serious attrocities the likes of which no one can imagine? Not even Japanese, Soviets or Nazis??

[@gergelyritter9599]

Its crazy how the battle of Changping was the deadliest battle for over 1,5 thousand years. And it was in the top 3 till the first World war. Simply unbelievable. What a battle it might have been.

[@niarkman6999]

loosing 0.7 million of people in a single battle is crazy. Especially considering how early it was in Chinese history.

[@ac1455]

Well it was over 46 days and they kept on reinforcing their armies over and over and over again. Don’t forget the civilian casualties too.

[@antonytye3484]

Wasn't as bloody or big as many of these battles, but the Battle of Towton in the War of the Roses had over 50.000 combatants, when the population of England was about 2 million, so 1 in 20 of all men in the country. That's a big hunk of a small population, and it was a particularly brutal affair where more than half died. Somebody worked out it would be over a million by today's populous and half a million dead in one-day.

[@chicken_burgers]

No one absolutely no one: The Chinese: Let's bury 200,000 people alive.

[@user-ou9pd4fx6k]

No one absolutely no one: The KMT: Still losing when Japanese got nuked. Just joking, i'm not a fan of CCP. And it was actually more than 200k

[@chicken_burgers]

@Bee Black Battle of Chang Ping 200,000 soldiers of Zao buried by the Qin army after they surrendered.

[@xufengliu753]

@@chicken_burgers According to historical records, it is 400,000. However, according to current archaeological excavations, scientists believe that Bai Qi did not bury a large number of soldiers from the State of Zhao alive. Instead, they first executed the rebel prisoners of war and then piled their corpses into a "Jingguan". Corpse tower. But Bai Qi admitted that he had killed hundreds of thousands of Zhao soldiers through this war.

[@chicken_burgers]

@@xufengliu753 I'm not an expert on our history. Neither the wiki page, this is not a good video for real research (the source is wiki) and what I said is just something I remember I read. In short, the comment is to express a unique phenomenon in our history (at least in the record) Chinese burying hundreds of thousands of other Chinese alive throughout the spring and autumn and three kingdom literature.

[@johnsontang3246]

@@chicken_burgers At that time the Qins and Zhaos hardly consider themselves as the same group of people, just like the Germans won't think Slavs as their own in WWII. Still, massacring pows is in no way ideal, but it seems a lot reasonable when you think under this historical context.

[@sockbot41]

I find it incredible that the Battle of Changping held the record of the deadliest battle in human history for 1520 years.

[@xiaotiancui3575]

yeah, Bai Qi, general of Qin decide to kill all Zhao's soliders off to save food and leave Zhao has no army to fight at all instead of just disarm or recruit them which could cause them to fight again or rebel. He wanted to end Zhao once and for all, but Qin's priminster was bribed by Zhao and suggested Qin's king to call the whole army back and rest and take down Zhao after a few years. But Zhao regrouped and the whole country united and defeat Qin's invasion after a few years. Bai Qi was commanded to commit sucide becasue he was not going to lead the second invasion, he knew he cant win. btw Bai Qi have never lost a battle

[@jackmackenzie3363]

WWII may end up being the largest battle in human civilisation, it sounds stupid at first glance but its at least a slight chance.

[@chengejshi5523]

@Valery M Yes. State Qin(the first millitaristic regime in China) determinded to annex it through crushing its will of resistance.

[@therenegadepianotechnician5170]

China because of its huge population has lost well over 100 million people in wars for unification, the Mongolian invasions, imperial Japan etc.

[@GR-pz8iy]

Don't trust this number. If it was really a 500k horde of Zhao forces, this will led the total population of at least 20 milion for them. This is inpossible and estimated populathion of Zhao was historically 2 milion at the time. Half of milion lossless for 2 milion populathion state means loosing all male populathion but kid and old. And Don't forget Zhao lasted another 30 year aftet this defeat. Real number is 1/10 of 700k death.

[@crimsoncarp6877]

**battles that have held the record for thousands of years** World war 2: "I'm just gonna slide right in here"

[@Earthl]

Me: Knowing already that stalingrad is the deadliest battles and I am just looking for some knowledge about the rest

[@dualtronix4438]

The Battle of Stalingrad remains the deadliest single battle in history. All those who are above it in the video are lots of battles grouped together. Edit: many of the casualties of the Siege of Leningrad were civilians trapped in the city. Excellent video, as always

[@theshadowone0816]

True

[@xenotypos]

Yeah, sometimes he counted entire invasions or sieges. What's more, he counted civilian death and mass executions (military or civilian) after battles, it's not the same thing as the casualties of the actual battles. And finally, most sources from antiquity can't really be trusted, some are simply romanticized. Records about the battle of Changping were written more than one century after the battle itself (and is closer to a novel), how is that even a reliable source ? The battle with the highest military casualties (from the actual battle) prior WW1, and reliably documented, was Leipzig battle during the Napoleonic Wars. And as you can see Leipzig battle isn't even mentioned, because of the factors I mentioned above.

[@malikdaddy6111]

Bro what about siege of bagdad

[@zacharytang3840]

@@malikdaddy6111 Baghdad siege? There were like 10 bro

[@malikdaddy6111]

@@zacharytang3840 im talking about that it was the biggest number of deaths the world has ever scene

[@thejesus8750]

Industrial revolution: happens Europe: I am about to do what’s called a gamer move

[@haeveen8255]

Russia failed the Industrial Power: *Sh*t*

[@paintball7797]

@@haeveen8255 soviet union which industrialized harder than the US in 1942: am I joke to you?

[@petrsalavec6541]

@@paintball7797 Yes.

[@purplefloyd1513]

I think we can all agree that Stalingrad was the single deadliest combat experience ever known to humankind.

[@eduardpeeterlemming]

This is amazing

[@ErPuglia]

7:23: 1800: Europeans: "Europe go BOOOOOM!!!!!!!" 1900: Europeans: "We not like wars anymore. Make peace?... Oh, look, they shot at the Austro-Hungarian prince..." *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM* Europeans: "Oof... Oh, look what is going in Germany and Italy..." *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

[@Anonymous-cm8jy]

Warriors

[@factshistory3193]

@@Anonymous-cm8jy dumasses

[@RenMagnum4057]

Cringe

[@johnnyjoestar5193]

^^

[@Ninja-hn9vo]

You: boom Me: *ok loser* 😏

[@bonkedwoofy4240]

Europe: The world is full of wars and no one want peace Also Europe:

[@luftim]

europeans have fighting in their DNA printet inn. war continent

[@saitamaisbored3968]

Most Peaceful Civilization was India and Egypt ... Literally no war until they were invaded .

[@notalizard6994]

@@saitamaisbored3968 Bullshit. If you've read their histories you know they had plenty of wars long before their invasions, don't know why they weren't included in this video.

[@juan.3077]

69 likes 👍

[@ewoudalliet1734]

@@luftim Proof?

[@manojpatil5242]

Thanks, informative..

[@interestedbystander196]

At least five of the million-plus casualty battles were from attempted invasions of Russia (back to Napoleon, and into WWII).

[@-brother_bear-]

And they ask why Russians so proud to celebrate Victory Day...

[@ptero]

День победы - день лицемерия и (очень дорогой) показухи Никто из ветеранов по настоящему не воспринимает его всерьез

[@AKAHEIZER]

Nobody questions that, US Citizen simple don't know, and the British may not even care. The think until today the Blitz on London was a great Battle were they defended their little Island in face of starvation...that was Kindergarten. They should asked the Polish/ Russian/ Germans/Chinese/ Japanese how WWII really felt.

[@joxikorr]

@@ptero моя бабушка воевала, для нее это был главный праздник всегда. Так что не надо тут лапшу на уши людям вешать.

[@joxikorr]

@@pervomaiskyyy а остальных ветеранов, ты видимо лично ходил опрашивал каждого?

[@ama73rasu35]

@@pervomaiskyyy а вы кроме 9го мая вспоминаете о ветеранах? Может в фонды жертвуете деньги? Задам вопрос с очень очевидным ответом: чего больше хотели бы солдаты Красной Армии после победы? Чтоб ежегодно проходил парад с показом величия нашей армии, подвига нашего народа, чтоб люди радовались, что синее небо над головой, или чтоб 9 мая много денег давало государство?

[@siddhanthraisharma4385]

0:58 the location pointed for representing battle of Kalinga is wrong

[@stealtho]

They probably mistakened the ethnic group in northern Luzon Kalinga for the battle that happened in India

[@chittodnaresh9568]

Ya, kalinga is in india

[@REEEPROGRAM]

I got confused for a second on what is the battle of kalinga doing near luzon and cagayan, probably a mistake

[@Carlo092289]

Yup. It was placed in one of the provinces of the Cordillera Region in the Philippines. I think it is supposed to be in India.

[@darkkestrel1]

the person probably just looked up location of Kalinga and ended up with the Province of Kalinga, Philippines instead of Kalinga, India

[@M2M-matt]

You seem to include whole campaigns and wars. For example, the "battle of Changping" you refer to in your video was one battle of a series of battles in a larger campaign that produced the estimated 700,000 casualties you refer to. That one battle did not produce 700,000 casualties. There seem to be quite a few inconsistencies in your presentation. Either make them all single battles or make them all campaigns and wars, not a mix of both and call them battles.

[@justryan6480]

Good video, though you forget many other conflicts

[@no_life6315]

WW2 literally filled the whole european map in red

[@gutsjoestar7450]

it's because of the germans ;

[@kkkaaa5967]

@@gutsjoestar7450 soviets*

[@imcloud305]

I just have a good gaming chair The French where bunch of noobs lmao

[@nickletatel8284]

@@gutsjoestar7450 ok, bro, it’s myth. USSR had been preparing for war during 10 years after Hitler came to power in Germany. But USSR didn’t want to start to war and didn’t plan to attack Germany first. How France and Maginot line. Archives to help.

[@rome316ae3]

@@kkkaaa5967 Soviet is red because of full blood

[@peanuts4723]

Nobody: Europe: *"So anyway, l started blasting"*

[@paintball7797]

Germany: "so anyway, I started blitzkrieging"

[@lilbrit1019]

@@paintball7797 no

[@helloimskip]

It's terrifying to think that the Siege of Baghdad remained the deadliest battle for hundreds of years until WW1.

[@SurprisinglyDynamicAnimeSideC]

"Battle of Teutoberg Forest: 7,500 casualties" The average size of a legion was about 5,000 fighting men. Each legion was also accompanied by a fair amount of slaves and other non-combatants. Three *entire* legions were destroyed in the Teutoberg Forest. Destroyed, not defeated. In other words, almost no one managed to make it back to Rome. The remaining few who surrendered were ritually sacrificed later by their captors. Even if we exclude the casualties of non-combatants and Germanic soldiers, and consider the possibility that some legions may have been understrength to the extent allowable by the Roman military, the number of casualties still exceeds 7,500 by a sizable margin. Once you include deaths of non-combatants, and the usually higher rate of casualties for any technologically inferior tribes facing Rome in the decades leading up to this battle, a casualty estimate over 20,000 can be safely implied. The casualties for the Second Punic War also seemed highly underrepresented, and for some reason those were brushed over all at once as if they were all the same battle. It's not hard to find the casualty estimates by scholars and professionals online. I assure you no one with any knowledge about this battle claims that the casualties numbered only 7,500, so I'm curious what sources you're using.

[@Baddon]

Precisely. Also, there are too many flaws in this video, Operation Barbarossa isn't even a battle for example...

[@kaylethstarbane7800]

Was looking for this comment, precisely indeed.

[@SKa-tt9nm]

The entire video is wrong.

[@chadsupporter4093]

Germanic soldiers had full germanic skull and D-N-A, skeleton remains prove this and they looked similar to Dolph Lundgren Look it up

[@Selmarya]

World war 1 and 2: 100 million dead World war 3: *gabons baboons your territory goes kabooms*

[@tomalex228]

In french we have an expression saying "never 2 without 3" sooo..... I hope theres no 3rd or else the nuclear power will kill millions AND destroy the planet

[@Klliansimabras]

@@tomalex228 Tant que les bombes nucléaires existeront, il n'y aura pas de 3ème guerre mondiale.

[@kolerick]

@@tomalex228 well, the 7 years war is also called ww0... so maybe we're done with that

[@afdalridwan3813]

@@kolerick so what is thirty years war? Ww-1

[@KrGsMrNKusinagi0]

casualties dont mean total dead.. it means injured included with dead.. Because 1 million didnt die during the civil war it was around 600,000 to 700,000.. think the total dead in ww2 was around 40-45 up to 60 million and ww1 around 9-15 or something

[@qui-gonjinn3322]

Many people talking about Stalingrad, but let's pay a little attention to Mongol siege of Baghdad. HOW IT WAS THAT RUTHLESS, THERE WEREN'T EVEN THAT MANY PEOPLE BACK IN THE DAYS?!

[@panzerwafflez7228]

Most of the death toll for Baghdad were civilians. There were only around 50,000 defenders at the battle itself. You can't call "murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians" a "battle".

[@blackpaint9093]

@@panzerwafflez7228 "only". 50k is a pretty big number

[@panzerwafflez7228]

@@blackpaint9093 Compared to the hundreds of thousands of purely military deaths in the battles this video left out then yeah 50k isn't much.

[@blackpaint9093]

@@panzerwafflez7228 this video is total bs. The 2 milion numbers comes from arabian sources which tend to consider that siege as the end of their golden era, both Mongolian and european sources claimed that 200 to 800 thousands persons died totally, which still is extremely big but not as near as 2 milion(as a matter of fact not a single city reached 1 milion inhabitants after Rome outside of Eastern asia)

[@panzerwafflez7228]

@@blackpaint9093 Funny thing the absolute max population Baghdad had was approximately one million. So makes you wonder...where tf did THE OTHER MILLION come from?

[@davidarmenta9873]

Love how the song got more powerful during the World War 2 era

[@ioannissitaras4750]

At 2:58 battle of Edessa is mentioned, in the frameware of Russian-Persian war and the red dot shows Edessa in Macedonia, Greece, while the battle took place in Edessa, Mesopotamia, in 260 AD where today's city of Urfa, Turkey is situated

[@ISnip3rJoeI]

WW2: "Sorry I'm late guys. Here, hold my beer and I'll show how its done."

[@legendarydn3804]

Watch when ww3 comes

[@toyotawitha20mm35]

Ww1 was much deadlier

[@toyotawitha20mm35]

In this lost they show entire operati0ns rather than single battles, the 5 deadliest battles (all of them ww1) were the battle of verdun, the somme, passchendaele, galicia, and one more battle from the brusilov offensive.

[@toyotawitha20mm35]

@New Delhi General statistically if you were a soldier in ww1 you were *more likely to die* I never said ww1 had more deaths than ww2 I'm saying if you were a soldier it was a hell of a lot more dangerous. The global population from 1914-1918 was significantly less than the population between 1939-1945 also most of the deaths in ww2 were civilian, this was the same for ww1 but more of the deaths in ww2 were civilian than ww1.

[@toyotawitha20mm35]

@New Delhi General key word *AS A SOLDIER*

[@tonyhawk94]

The siege of Bagdad is one of the greatest disaster in human history, for the scale of the bloodbath but more importantly for the amount of knowledge lost in the process.

[@doggocattymoments9509]

unfortunately

[@sashaaa_27]

they had shite. no knowledge.

[@jaroslawk2010]

So interesting. My favorite part of Arab history.

[@sashaaa_27]

@Egyptian Eagle88 no no. the Romans discovered the planets first. thats why they named after Roman gods. so I'm asking you wheres your knowledge? you saying after that incident you people stopped producing smart people. so wheres your logic? you just have to thank Greeks for what they give and not try to suffer over false owning the knowledge. there are no islam scientists because baghdad is died okay sure buddy. but why you ruin the Constantinople though?

[@tiger_io]

Not a very fun fact: the siege of Baghdad still has effects on present day Baghdad, ever since that siege Baghdad couldn't recover from all the wars its people had to go through for 800 years, corruption now rules its land but the people are tired of that and are trying to change Baghdad to become even better than it was 800 years ago where it used to be the main destination for every scientist from any religion or country

[@airraverstaz]

I remember watching a documentary on World War 1 one time and they were talking about 30,000 dead as a "minor battle"......in the overall scheme of things yes, but I thought to myself "you know you're playing a sick game when 30,000 human lives is considered minor."

[@randomlycasual4941]

Probably casualties. Actually dead is a shit ton

[@enitivy]

In Soviet Russia, 30k people is too little

[@sarthakmamgain6907]

Opperation barbarossa: I'm the deadloest aar ever faught. Meanwhile ramayana and mahabharata: hold my bear...

[@kunalrao2134]

Just a feedback, battle of Kalinga was placed on wrong location. Also Timur's siege of Delhi was much earlier, I think you meant siege of Delhi by Nadir Shah.

[@vivekanand9944]

Yes. There are many inaccuracies

[@___Aathil_Karthik___]

Yes

[@aaditsingh6366]

😂😂😂 battle of Kalinga ko Taiwan mein dikha diya

[@paulandreig.sahagun34]

Yup, he placed it on one of the Province in Philippines, named Kalinga hahahahaha

[@MaksB.]

Also, in 1420 or around that time there is a "Battle of Ankara" in both Turkey and Poland, I think they ment "Battle of Grunwald/Tannenberg"

[@jasatotakouzeno4674]

5:39 I think that’s supposed to be the battle of Grunwald/Tannenburg, not Ankara

[@JesperRoos]

THATS WHAT YOU THINK.

[@kamilbielicki5240]

You're right

[@inutilus_1387]

Yeah that bugged me. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@linasarizona]

@@JesperRoos It's fact not thinking.

[@jetamtskheta]

Polish Ankara, nothing to see here. And Crimean war in the center of Moscow.

[@gizel4376]

i was expecting Cannae to have a good spot for a while, but i guess when you include whole siege, whole war and civilian casualties, that give unexpected results

[@switzerland5101]

I love how polish lithuanian made Battle name was "Battle of Ankara" after Timurid-Ottoman war

[@Painkiller1430]

Sometimes as a Greek i feel more cursed than blessed, i'm sure other Balkans, north east africans, east medditerranean middleeast countries and the Turks feel the same way. The clash of civilizations was always at our doorstep, the crossroads where the 3 continents meet. Nice video btw! :)

[@precursors]

It’s like a miracle our cıuntries even survived

[@nikolailjes4462]

I have seen very few of greek battles in this video,to be even more depressing there are 0 serbian and romanian battles which u cant ignore cuz they were important as well,but his logic was lets put some random bullshit i found on internet :D

[@oguzdursun246]

As a Türk i agree on that. Geographical location, nature, cultural richness all good but the politics and relations are all shit here. Today, if we were just an island with no land connection everything would be so much easier and even that wouldn't solve all the problems i think lol.

[@mistalion1]

agree as a Turk

[@dominictoretto9645]

I mean man if you think about it our ancestors survived all those ethnic cleansings and came out on top.

[@FrancescoMrC]

1900: How many deaths do you want? Europe: Yes

[@KrazyKrab7]

east asia: '_'

[@satans_]

@@KrazyKrab7 в Азії не так багато як в Європі.

[@ashokporwal9827]

Most of the people died in World war were not from Europe.they were from colonies of Europe in asia.

[@bora8254]

“ I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. “ Albert Einstein

[@VMilev101]

I don’t know how it is possible to comprehend the loss of human life throughout our history and the fact that we still exist as a species

[@dangphucuong]

7:20 The Siamese-Vietnamese war happened in Tibet just show how good this guy at geography.

[@firstnamelastname.7749]

Also he put the kalinga war in the philippines lol

[@antory3164]

Siam-Burmese War

[@lolasdm6959]

Americans

[@adriantsien1867]

@@lolasdm6959 How do you know he is an American?

[@lolasdm6959]

@@adriantsien1867 he is actually an American.

[@Adino1]

I'm glad the Battle of Baghdad was included, the massacre of Baghdad. Its impact on world history goes under appreciated

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

Exactly. The Mongol conquests was a blow against the Muslim world they never truly recovered from. Before the Mongols, Baghdad was the center of world knowledge attracting scientists, physicians, astronomers, mathematicians from everywhere, the Muslim world was more enlightened and liberal than the Christian world. After the Mongols, everything flipped. The center of the Islamic world was destroyed and was never the same again.

[@Adino1]

@@pineapplesareyummy6352 It was the equivalent to Islam what nuking Athens in ancient Greece would have done to the future of Western society.

[@julesbrags1661]

@@Adino1 Athens had a fair share of that treatment too. Persia sacked it and burned it to the ground, though they still recovered.

[@adam88721]

@@pineapplesareyummy6352 Are the number right? I read about 100,000 civilians and 50,000 soldiers for al-Musta'sim... How did they get 2,000,000? The whole campaign including the Nizari State?

[@moe3213]

@@julesbrags1661 Persian king ordered to rebuild the city

[@Keplerb-od1lr]

America: we’ve been in a lot of wars. Europe: don’t speak to us about the dark magic. We were there when it was written.

[@kruthikanj]

War and history is being mentioned without mahabharata or any other war bas text book waley wars mention kiya gaya hai, nice 👍

[@breizhrudie4757]

Surely I'm not the only one noticing the OGs already memeing at the Battle of Sentinum willfully getting killed to make 69, 420 casualities

[@faiz8385]

Ofc

[@crimsoncarp6877]

When the number of casualties hit 69420, the fighting between both sides stopped and the soldiers went home

[@youman5079]

It’s crazy to think that the deadliest battle ever on earth was less then 100 year ago

[@free_boiling4502]

its actually crazy that it was that long ago, with population skyrocketing since then you would expect a modern battle to top the list

[@plusultra4961]

mm no so crazy, logical in fact

[@TheCrimsonS4ge]

There haven't really been any Massive wars since the end of WW2 and since the Geneva conventions military discipline has gotten a lot better, which has brought the number of civilian casualties WAY down.

[@user-td7oe5fm8d]

@@TheCrimsonS4ge Syria and Afghanistan would like to have a word.

[@dangercat9188]

Yea scary. All because of a little psychotic Austrian with self hatred. It's actually crazy to know that something like that happened. I feel bad for those who were alive at that time 😕

[@theduckthatsees225]

I love half of all the battles in this video happen in the span of about 10 seconds from the start of WW1 to the end of WW2

[@mlgbumlord2017]

Idk why but this video just made me really sad… it’s terrible to think abt all the people that died and how all they contributed to history was a number on our screen even though the fought so hard and gave everything they had

[@youtubeadministration8037]

5:35 battle of Ankara - the greatest battle during polish-Lithuanian wars against the teutonic order

[@wujciowariatuncio5702]

hehehe, we've chased Teutons up to the Ankara

[@valdce5944]

Grunwald!!!!!!!!!

[@fsdds1488]

Battle of Red Cliffs, the greatest lake battle in Tibet where the CaoCao's army developed altitude sickness aginst the Han-Tibetian warlord Sun Quan and his Turkic ally Liu Bei.

[@mehmetylmaz9484]

No ,it was Ankara war I lived in Ankara and I can confirm . Turkish people in Ankara invited Polish and Teutonic Knights to Ankara for this battle We Rented our hotels and provided food and water for both sides.

[@lukasgaizauskas1127]

WTF...

[@bangercakes]

0:58 The battle of Kalinga took place in what is now the modern day state of Odisha in India, not in the Phillipines.

[@sachinkadam8666]

I was thinking the same thing

[@harrygk]

they know nuts about indian history

[@maiahkatrinaminahotbabes6943]

Wrong info igorot are warrior.

[@cvenkat7766]

Sadly, the person who made this video, did not know either indian history or india's geography.

[@bangercakes]

@Astro ldier that might explain it, thanks!

[@ano61nym]

it would be interesting to picture the casualties as percentage of either the World Population at that time or the population of the parties engaged.

[@LRichelieu]

I’m surprised you missed the first Congo war, That had an estimated six million killed.

[@maestreiluminati87]

It's actually heart breaking seeing the massive difference in casualties in WW2 alone

[@enitivy]

German soviet war alone was too bloody

[@Stellar_Insights_]

This channel is so... underrated 😔 hope it gets 1M subs soon... Anyways love from India ♥️

[@Stellar_Insights_]

@মেয়ে পটানো টিপস বি ডি 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@zacharytang3840]

multiple battles were wrong: You don’t even care about Kalinga?!

[@ajarofmayonnaise3250]

@@zacharytang3840 yeah I noticed that too they placed it in phillipines rather than in real kalinga which was situated in india but we all mistakes

[@Stellar_Insights_]

@@akshatchoudhary6847 are you nuts? Mahabharata is a fictional story

[@akshatchoudhary6847]

@@Stellar_Insights_ where are you from??

[@rupeshmaurya9721]

What is name of this background music... please tell me

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

Lol I like that the first 4 bloodiest operations in the second world war were in the war between Germany and the USSR, but the USA continues to say that they made the greatest contribution to the victory lmao 😂😂😂

[@alexandersohn569]

No one's gonna talk about the fact that the number of casualties in Ancient and Medieval times were highly exaggerated? In some wars, the casualty were bigger than the whole population living in that region.

[@Plutokta]

Most of these numbers are very wrong and grossly exaggerated. Like for the battle of the Catalaunian plains, the number of casualties exceeds the estimated number of combatant. The number of casualties for the siege of Alesia is unknown, and yet they pull a 200000 figure out of a hat with no historical source whatsoever. Some wars are counted as battles (french invasion of russia is not a battle, it's a war, comprised of dozens of battles over several months, same goes for Operation Barbarossa and these are just a few examples). Plus, there is also a big confusion between "dead" and "casualty". "Casualty" included dead, wounded, prisoners and missing. And i won't even mention the total lack of attempt to place these battle on a map correctly.

[@DarkKnight-wf3po]

Baghdad was the most populated city in world during its siege, and it remained most populated even after it

[@cantstopthebear]

battle of sentinum 0:45 nice

[@lesscringeymapperdude]

redditor

[@YunnimLoco]

Davie504: ÉPICO

[@Void_Wars]

Redditor spotted, lethal forces engage.

[@LoliPolice-bf7mw]

@@Void_Wars dude no one on reddit says "nice" to a 420 or a 69 anymore

[@Void_Wars]

Judging by your terrible username, I’m guessing redditors do exactly that. Also, loli is pedophilia.

[@Omer1996E.C]

Siege of Baghdad was the highest for the longest time. For 661 years until WW1

[@ricotaline]

If you only count soldiers, French invasion of Russia was more deadly than siege of Baghdad. Civilian doesn't really count

[@Omer1996E.C]

@@ricotaline there is no evidence that this was bloodier than siege of Baghdad. Baghdad that was at that time the largest and most populous city in the world

[@ricotaline]

@@Omer1996E.C The video says 2 millions deaths during siege of Bagdad. By looking on this internet, I see 200 000 deaths, not 2 millions Napoléon lost 500 000+ soldiers during Russia invasion. Russian people lost the same amount of people. At that time, it was the greatest and deadliest raid ever. But I agree, it wasn't only one battle

[@Omer1996E.C]

@@ricotaline western sources only say 1 million, while islamic/Arab sources say 2 million. I would believe the Islamic sources since it was the capital of islam at that time

[@ricotaline]

@@Omer1996E.C What are this sources ? (true question)

[@blackout995]

Would be interesting to see this again when adjusted for world population. Battle of Changping and Siege of Baghdad sound like absolute slogs.

[@mortemartin]

1410 battle of Grunwald had really taken place in Ankara, we have been lied to the whole damn life!

[@graymangrayman7741]

Who told U that nonsense

[@mortemartin]

@@graymangrayman7741 that was a joke, watch whole video and - as a pole - you should get what i meant

[@tt-tg9fn]

@@mortemartin evet Kesinlikle 15.000 değil Timur konya,sivas ve diğer şehirleri yıka yıka gelmişti

[@mortemartin]

@@tt-tg9fn sorry, i dont understand

[@batuhanyayla7214]

@@mortemartin he is telling there was more than a 15 thousands casualties

[@andystoneburner2891]

Modern estimates of actual totals for ancient battles in the BC era especially have been shown that their numbers were greatly inflated.

[@bricklanzo1484]

Modern estimates of medieval battles and ancient battles show that their numbers were inflated. Many battles were documented to make it sound heroic.

[@eduardpeeterlemming]

Basicly Europe: hey, look at only me, nothing else exist other then me and wars

[@fensen6949]

0:55 i really loved the way you exactly pinpointed the Kalinga war location in modern Philippines.. just wow..

[@pranshuverma5777]

Kalinga is in Orissa, India

[@fensen6949]

@@pranshuverma5777 i was being sarcastic.. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@pranshuverma5777]

I know that 😉

[@nicetascholupini]

5:34 The battle between Polish-Lithuanian forces and Teutons was at Grunwald. You typed “Battle of Ankara” for two battle in a chronological row.

[@beorhtric6929]

love this channel keep up the good work

[@deadraider420]

That escalated quickly- Ron Burgundy

[@General_Cheese6]

What is the music in this it’s awesome

[@shwetadewangan1456]

The battle of Kalinga was fought in Orissa in India not in Phillipines.🙄🙄

[@campbellwilson3043]

battle of Sentinum: 69,420 deaths nice but not really, actually really tragic.

[@REEEPROGRAM]

Time stamp?

[@mathias8206]

@@REEEPROGRAM from 0:45

[@REEEPROGRAM]

@@mathias8206 thank you

[@ladofthedamned7796]

reddit moment

[@razzy1448]

69th like on your comment.......Nice

[@md.anisurhoque8466]

@global stat the location of battle of Kalinga shown in the map is wrong. It happen in Orissa,India. Pls correct it ...

[@kellyeaton7252]

Absolute deaths are one thing, but it seems important to frame the deaths as percentage of the population and the war efforts as percentage of gdp for all parties involved in the conflict. 80,000,000 deaths seems like an astronomical number, but it involved more than half the world population, whereas most conflicts historically were between two parties, and depending on the year those parties may have had a hundredth the population as during the 20th century. Then gdp shows how much energy a nation is expending toward the pursuit of war. People complain about our defense spending being astronomical these days, but as a percentage of our overall output it's significantly less than in centuries past. None of this is to diminish the horrors of WWII.

[@chrisslater4053]

"Can I be in Operation Barbarossa?" "Are you out of your mind?!"

[@johnsontang3246]

If the author has taken a closer look at the Chinese Warring State period, he could have found there were way more wars that can stay on the ranking. In fact, the King of Qin reigning the state during the Battle of Changping caused more than 1.6 million civilian and soldiers casualties(combining his own and enemies' sides), alone. That was really an incredible, and bloody period. Pretty much a world war in BCE.

[@destructoGB]

I know the author is so racist

[@mieszkothemigrantmercenary2808]

I see you with that battle of Sentinum

[@derek_shen]

When the causalities are 69,420, you know something is up

[@arcturandon7610]

Let's pray the records of the 1940's are never broken.

[@Bristecom]

I think there will be a final WW3 that will be even bigger. It will be globalism vs nationalism round 3. Globalism will unfortunately win and the New World Order will be set firmly in place with Jerusalem as the capitol of the world until Christ returns and wipes it out according to the Bible.

[@dangercat9188]

Hopefully 🙏

[@gustielteso]

America: Remains relatively pacific during all the history Spain: So you haven't tasted the flavor of war?

[@theyoungbonaparte3739]

The Americas faced many wars, most we don't hear about

[@royroland3884]

There were a lot of wars in pre-columbia America, but nothing as big as the siege of tenochtitlan.

[@octaviogutierrez9158]

It is true that the spanish conquerors brought more deaths to the region, but wars between different pre-Columbian kingdoms existed for thousands of years. for example, the Mayans of the kingdom of Tikal against those of Calakmul and Copán, the possible revolt in Teotihuacan, the Inca conquest of the andes and the inca succession war , the dissolution of the Mayapan league, the purepecha and Aztec independence or the Aztec flower wars. They were also quite bloody (although it does not justify the spanish conquest).

[@hueytlahtoani1304]

@@octaviogutierrez9158 The Tikal-Calakmul wars were so bloody and destructive that ruined almost their entire civilization

[@dangercat9188]

There were many wars. The French, Spanish and Portuguese took part. As well as the English, Germans and Irish. There was the Spanish American War and the Mexican American War.

[@ryanhendrick484]

awesome video. this doesnt account for all the lives that were lost in East Asia during the Roman era until like the 17th century lol. we had no way of knowing. we still dont.. rip to those that are forgotten. Stalingrad's combat, Leningrad's siege, and Baghdad's destruction are my top 3 but i know nothing.

[@erichvondonitz5325]

I like how battle of Changping was the most deadliests since humans were still populating the world

[@vegetableman3911]

Humans: *Exist* You have just provoked a gang war

[@euggene9493]

*Oh shit, here we go again*

[@ezioauditore1091]

7:25 Napoleon: Hehe Boi

[@Archduke_Astatos]

Isn't it telling how as soon as 1914 rolls around all of the top battles are cycled out for extremely recent ones of millions dead and Europe goes "That was fun! Let's do it again."