I dont know, I am torn between the crusaders and the (non-present) mongol empire
Such is life :/Too bad we can't vote for multiple choices. I voted for the Mongol Empire, but I also would have gone for Spain, the Ottomans and the Crusader States.
I can kind of (well, kind of) understand the reasoning for putting all these countries into the poll...except one. What evil was the Holy Roman Empire associated with?
You should have called all of them Empires.What is in your eyes the most evil state in the history before 1900?
Does any one remember the Tasmanian Genocide? The British Empire killed all the men and forced the women to carry their severed heads.
I do. The only truly successful genocide in history, in that there are literally no ‘real’ Tasmanian Aborigines left, just 29,000 mixed race individuals. However where did you read about the severed heads? I consider this one of my few historical areas of expertise and I’ve never read anything about women being forced to carry severed heads around. Beheadings sure, but that seems particularly atrocious and I feel it’d warrant more historical analysis if it’s true.
This is only about states that existed Before 1900.Nazi Germany is the layup pick
That could be true, but a Top 10 video on YouTube isn't exactly the best of sources.The death count for the British Empire throughout history was about one hundred fifty million people, and I heard it in the video on the ten most destructive empires in history. They beat out Nazi Germany and the Communist States.
The death count for the British Empire throughout history was about one hundred fifty million people, and I heard it in the video on the ten most destructive empires in history. They beat out Nazi Germany and the Communist States.
That sounds... wrong. 150 million seems gratuitous. I’m trying to think where the majority of those deaths would arise from. India I suppose, but quickly aggregating the famines that occurred under British rule (I ignored the Chalisa Famine because British culpability is difficult to prove in that scenario) I only got 36 million. Could all the war and disease they unleashed elsewhere really make up the other 114 million? Even in thinly populated places like southern Africa and the Americas? I have no doubt that Britain’s various colonial activities could wrack up that death count by proxy, but as a direct consequence of British imperialism seems to be stretching numbers, at least to me.
And as aforementioned, a YouTube Top Ten video probably isn’t the reliable source. Their goal is to shock and awe, so they might be in the business of stretching numbers and facts.