What is the highest death toll in history? -

[The Curmudgeon]

To make this less vague, hopefully:

What is the highest death toll from natural disasters?

What is the highest death toll caused by other humans?

 

[Just Dont]

To make this less vague, hopefully:

What is the highest death toll from natural disasters?

What is the highest death toll caused by other humans?

Faggot get a real hobby. You have way too much time if you think stupid broad nonsense questions Ike that.

 

[Maxxicus Callahan]

To make this less vague, hopefully:

What is the highest death toll from natural disasters?

What is the highest death toll caused by other humans?

If I were to take a wild guess I’d say the 45 million people killed by Mao in the Great Leap Forward in China. As for natural disasters I’d google it to find out.

 

[DumbDude42]

natural disasters? probably one of the medieval plague epidemics that spread across most of eurasia (from china and india in the east all the way to the mediterranean in the west)

caused by humans? probably the mongol conquests, followed by ww2, ww1, and possibly one of those civil wars in ancient china (no real accurate death counts for those)

 

[Save the Loli]

Just go read Chinese history if you want numbers porn of "this many people died because of this disaster on this date."

What is the highest death toll from natural disasters?

Probably some drought in China that killed millions of people.

What is the highest death toll caused by other humans?

World War II which is mostly because the Chinese starved/killed their own people by deliberately flooding their country even if Hitler and Stalin put up some good (((numbers))).

 

[Solid Snek]

To make this less vague, hopefully:

What is the highest death toll from natural disasters?

What is the highest death toll caused by other humans?

Wikipedia claims that the highest death toll from a natural disaster was the 1931 Wuhan Flood. The death toll estimate is between 4 and 5 million; however, this number includes people who died of starvation and disease over the next few years. Only 150,000 deaths can be proximately attributed to the flood.

The natural disaster which directly caused the most deaths may have been the 1970 Bhola Cyclone. More than 500,000 people reportedly died during the storm surge. There are several other disasters suggested as being deadlier - the 1887 Yellow River flood, and two Chinese earthquakes - however, the death tolls from these disasters are contentious, and as with the 1931 flood, include subsequent deaths from starvation and disease.

As for deaths caused by other humans, until we stop being friends with China and decide covid is a bioweapon, the current champion is World War 2. 85,000,000 lost their lives trying to prevent Japan from decolonizing Asia, and Germany from reclaiming the territory stolen from it by the Treaty of Versailles. That sounds like a lot of dead people, but remember, there is never a price too high to pay in order to make the world safe from democracy.

 

[Milkis]

If you don't consider a war a disaster, probably the Taiping Rebellion, in which possibly up to 70 million died just because some retard thought he was Jesus Christ's little brother

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Smallpox has been killing humans since 10,000 BC. In the 18th century, over 400,000 people died every year in Europe from smallpox.
Bubonic plague went through Europe and the Mediterranean from 1346 until 1353. More than 50 million people died which was 60% of Europe's entire population at the time.
But the oldest and most lethal disease still killing humans is tuberculosis. For all the hand wringing about coronavirus, the fact is TB kills about the same number of people that corona has killed so far each year. It's been confirmed to have been around 35,000 years ago but some believe it's been around for at least 2.6 billions years ago. TB exploded in Europe in the 17th century, with 1 in five dead listed being caused by TB in London. It is believed that in the last 200 years TB has killed over a billion people.

With the exception of smallpox, these diseases are still with us, right now, in cities and the countryside. Some believe smallpox, in the form of monkeypox or other zoonotic variants, will make comeback in lethal form. Cornonavirus is, like all things from Communist China, small potatoes.

As far as wars go WWII is the big winner, like @Solid Snek detailed.

 

[Snekposter]

As far as wars go WWII is the big winner, like @Snekposter detailed.

Wrong Snek, I'm afraid.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Wrong Snek, I'm afraid.

Snek nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I fixed it sorry to have summoned you

 

[KingCoelacanth]

Ghengas Khan killed 1/10th of the world's population in his time, this would amount to 800,000,000 people today.
Probably not what you're looking for, but just some food for thought when considering events in relation to history and human population

 

[Snekposter]

Snek nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I fixed it sorry to have summoned you

Na, its fine. The snek in my avatar is fond of Metal Gear cosplay... complete with "cardboard" box. I'm probably going to dig up something that isn't a snip from an anime from one of the weeb art sites soon for a more proper avatar.

 

[TFT-A9]

The number of people who got cancer and died after reading your posts.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Ancient Egypt where 6 quintillion jews were killed and built into pyramids.

 

[Niggernerd]

Great leap forward off the building