How many people have died in wars in past 2000 years?

Answer 1

There is no way to know an exact number. My best guess would be millions.

Here is a very interesting list of the 20 worst things people have done to each other...

mostly due to war...and this will be a much more accurate answer than "millions"...

163 millionSecond World War20C240 millionMao Zedong (mostly famine)20C40 millionGenghis Khan13C427 millionBritish India (mostly famine)19C525 millionFall of the Ming Dynasty17C620 millionTaiping Rebellion19C20 millionJoseph Stalin20C819 millionMideast Slave Trade7C-19C917 millionTimur Lenk14C-15C1016 millionAtlantic Slave Trade15C-19C1115 millionFirst World War20C15 millionConquest of the Americas15C-19C1313 millionMuslim Conquest of India11C-18C1410 millionAn Lushan Revolt8C10 millionXin Dynasty1C169 millionRussian Civil War20C178 millionFall of Rome5C8 millionCongo Free State19C-20C197½ millionThirty Years War17C7½ millionFall of the Yuan Dynasty14C

Answer 2

all who believe in fake gods and not in the God the creature one day they will perish

You must have misunderstood me. I was being facetious. There ARE no "gods" they are ALL "false;" made up with man's indelible-imagination. Don't be stupid. Those poor fools who "think" they "died for their country" were "hoodwinked" by the same asswipes that fooled them about "god" in the first place...."God is not dead. He simply never existed!

Read Zecharia Sitchens work. And ignore Ronald Weinland

Answer 3

At least- if the figures are accurate- Six million Jews were executed in and by Nazi Germany, mostly by the Waffen (armed) SS and Gestapo ( security state police). This was certainly religiously-motivated genocide.

Answer 4

Answer: The answer depends totally on how you define the term 'religious conflict.'

If you include anything that has the name of religion as being its cause then you have any number of things that could go in there such as:

1. The thirty years war.

2. The inquisition - a war on heretics as defined by the Roman Catholic church.

3. The Crusades.

4. Islam's advance into Europe and the Middle East in the centuries after the death of Muhammed.

If you include Atheism as a religious (or anti-religious) ideology then you have some big ones:

1. Stalin- head of an Atheistic regime.

2. Pol Pot and Cambodia.

3. Hitler -recently idenitified in terms of his anti-Christian bias in a number of recent works, including transcripts of Nuremburg.

4. Mao in China - primarily the cultural revolution.

It is understood the above are problematical and so some would not include Atheist-inspired regimes under religious conflict. Communist ideology by definition is clearly Atheistic, one aim of which was clearly to destroy those who followed 'the opium of the people'. Certainly it is also clear that not all victims of Atheist regimes were for 'religious' reasons -eg. purging of political rivals.

In any case, largely due to technological advances when applied to killing humans the figures in recent times are much higher than previously, especially if you include the latter category. Numbers are of course in the millions in recent times and much less in the earlier categories.

Answer 5

Untold millions. It is really difficult to keep track of how many, exactly. Several wars have been fought mainly over the topic of religion, though, or with religion as a major element - or excuse.

Answer 6

Millions of people have died due to religious wars. It would be impossible to determine an exact number of deaths in conflicts that are religiously motivated.