World Battleground, 1000 years of war in 5 minutes
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Published 2008-10-22
This animation shows all important battles that took place over the last ten centuries. The sizes of the explosions and labels are proportional to the number of casualties. The music is "Ride Of The Valkyries" by Richard Wagner. The data comes from the wikipedia article, List of Battles.
Most of the activity seems to happen in Europe, this is because the english wikipedia was used. In a future release of this video I will merge wikipedias in different languages to solve this bias.
All Comments (21)
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Europe are you okay
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You good Europe?
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1000 A.D. Antarctica has joined spectators
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4:20 come to Europe, it's safe.
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The whole map literally exploded suddenly when it hit World War II
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damn WW 2 is a fucking spectacular fireworks show
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Wait...why it stops in 2008? looks on upload date Oh..
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Lack of knowledge outside Europe.
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Fucking WW2 man. Just the whole screen exploded XD
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Saddest part - "to be continued"
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Where the hell are the Mongol conquests and what's with the lack of battles from India and China?
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Too many wars in Canada...
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before 1800 : Sh*t 1800-1900 : Holy sh*t 1900-1945 : Motherf*cking holy sh*t
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Jesus, Europe is just going at it non-stop
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To be continued... Well that's scary
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We need the final world war to finish up this epic trilogy
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"Europe needs to chill"
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The 1910's and the 40's literally blew up lol
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THIS IS FINE
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I have a retired anthropologist friend who I asked-" how would you sum up what you have learned in you entire career about humanity?" He said "if you put two people together, they are going to fight."