arachnophilia writes:
but i still think you'll find the crusades far outweigh mao. you don't wage war for 200 years and not kill a whole lot of people.
How many people you can kill with a two hundred year war, depends for a large part on
when in human history you wage that war. Around the time of the crusades, the total world population is estimated to have been between 250 and 400 million. Obviously, by far the most of those people were not living in the areas affected by the crusades.
Here's a
site that may provide some useful information in this discussion.
quote:
TOTAL: When I take all the individual death tolls listed here, weed out the duplicates, fill in the blanks, apply Occam ("Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate"), etc. I get a very rough total of 1 M deaths in the Crusades.
I don't know how reliable this site is, but it looks as though the maker has put some serious effort in it.
This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 15-Nov-2005 10:35 AM
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