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Oct 24, 2019 · Human history has been quite violent. From devastating pandemics to consistent war, our ancestors saw more action in a single week than most of us will see in our lifetimes. SEE ALSO: 10 History Myths Still Taught As Fact
- 536 AD and the “Dark Ages” Imagine living in near darkness for over a year, with average summer temperatures falling by around 1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celcius, enough to kill crops and livestock.
- 1347 – 1353: The Black Death. About 800 years after the Justinian plague, another catastrophic outbreak of bubonic plague ravaged parts of Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
- 1816: The year without a summer. Similar to 536 AD, 1816’s summer temperatures plummeted in some places and times to 33.8 degrees Fahrenheit (one degree Celcius), and the skies across the Northern Hemisphere were dark and gloomy once again.
- 1918-1919: WWI and the Spanish flu. Just a century after the disastrous, dark summer of 1816, much of humanity was plunged into another ravaging time: World War I.
Nov 9, 2017 · In his 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Harvard University psychologist and famed intellect Steven Pinker argues humans are now living in the...
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Oct 17, 2016 · More specifically, though, the most violent era was the Post-Classic, which runs from AD 1200 to modern times. And then things suddenly got better.
Jul 10, 2024 · Blasphemy was a form of violence in the early modern era. 6 Bullying, cyber-hate, digital vigilantism, racial epithets and emotional abuse are also forms of violence, especially when persistent verbal attacks can lead to self-harm or even suicide.
Oct 4, 2011 · Similar systems for rage, predatory seeking, and male-male aggression may be found in Homo sapiens, together with uniquely human, cognitively-driven systems of aggression such as political and...
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Jun 23, 2015 · This great chart from Oxford ’s Max Roser — which shows the global death rate from war over the past 600-plus years — shows just how lucky we are. The red line in Roser’s chart shows the ...
