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Cartoonist

(7,323 posts) Wed Feb 13, 2019, 09:57 AM Feb 2019

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The Truce of God

No war on weekends.

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The Truce of God (Original Post) Cartoonist Feb 2019 OP

Lot of good that did... NeoGreen Feb 2019 #1

Adjust for total population zipplewrath Feb 2019 #2

NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)

1. Lot of good that did...

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Wed Feb 13, 2019, 11:16 AM

Feb 2019

...up until the Age of Reason, (i.e. ~1750) the trend was apparently upward
(woo hoo, Thrity Years War!...who's in?... anyone?...anyone?):

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)

2. Adjust for total population

Reply to NeoGreen (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 13, 2019, 11:36 AM

Feb 2019

If you adjust that for the total population of the world, we have been becoming a less violent world over time. (Well, less deadly in our wars)

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