By Bal(t)imoron, 6 months and 29 days ago
Name that Bloody War
Earlier I was selecting sample data for that paper on civil wars and resources I wrote about earlier. Here's a trivia question: what was the bloodiest civil war in the world during the 19th Century?
A hint...
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6 months and 27 days ago
Both of you are right. It's the Taiping Rebellion, listed in the Correlates of War project I am using for my research project as an intra-state war. The database lists «Total battle deaths of state participants» and «Total battle deaths of all participants». Amazingly, the second category is unknown, and the first is officially 2,000,025!
6 months and 28 days ago
I'm certain it was the taiping rebellion. I learned that in an undergraduate black history (!) class. As the course calendar mentioned, it was the «age of imperialism» told from an anti-imperialist point of view.
6 months and 28 days ago
That wasn't a civil war. That was a failed revolution. There was nothing civil about that war. Both sides massacred non-combatant, sacking whole cities.
Oh, not to hurt the feeling of Chinese here. This was was the American civil war, of course. Chinese won't do anything like this at all.
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