Comment on Anon is a history buff

Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  the combined losses of the first world war are far lower than those of the Taiping rebellion (in absolute numbers, the discrepancy is even higher per capita)

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And I had to Google it to find out what you were talking about.

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The arrows are tripping me out. The ones on the China line are basically saying this event caused this population decline. But if you apply that logic to the Europe line, the arrow says the population increased during the black death.

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