What are the 3 worst historical happenings since the beginning of the human race?

Answer 1

Lemme see the candidates from the list of genocide, wars and pestilence:

Black Plague
Stalinist purges
Nazis state sponsored genocide
WWII
Rhwanda debacle
American Indian genocide
Nuclear detonations over civilians or invention of nuclear fission
Firebombing of Dresden
Mongol Conquests-13th Century
Africa slave trade
Mao purges in China
War crimes of Imperial Japan
The list goes on

Most of the killing at Treblinka and other German death camps, for example, occurred inside a .1345 or .21 square kilometer camp. The Rwanda massacres, on the other hand, were many events spread out across the 26,338 square kilometers of an entire country, so I don't count those. In borderline cases such as Katyn (three related massacres) and Kolyma (a large complex of labor camps operating for many years), I've leaned toward inclusion because these are smaller parts of a larger whole. The elimination of the American natives spread over several centuries was left out. Total death tolls for multiple events considered collectively are massive, but do they fall under the 'historical happening' defintion of your question?

Answer 2

That's a hard question....

1) The Schism between the Orthodox Church and Catholicism. It really was the beginning of a lot religious strife that still affecting the regions today.

2) It's hard to pick one genocide. How do you say this slaughter was worse then that slaughter? But I'm going to say the killings in Rwanda, because UN had a chance, and didn't step in. The world turned its back, and I think it made many people in power more bold, even today, because they think UN doesn't have the will to step in.

3) The advent of Russian Communism. It changed life for so many, so for so long. Vietnam, North Korea, China and Cuba. But USSR was the granddaddy of them all.

Answer 3

The Jewish People being expelled from the holy land by the Romans in around 135 C.E.
World War 2 1939-1945
The Great Depression 1929-1939

Answer 4

1. World War II & the Holocaust
2. Spanish Inquisition
3. Fall of the Roman Empire

Interesting to note that all 3 were caused by Christians ...

Answer 5

1. Holocaust
2. Bubonic Plague (aka Black Death)
3. Irish Potato Famine

Answer 6

Slavery/Colonization of smaller countries-this is on going
Halacaust-spelled it wrong!!!!
and the black plague
definetly not 9/11...there have been a lot worse done to other countries. 9/11 was considered so big because the U.S. is a world power and americans thought something that big couldn't happen it the U.S...


and I think the person above me has a really good answer too!!!!

Answer 7

The burning of Alexandria Library; Organized and Stately Slavery and the Conception of genocide as a human flaw

Answer 8

1. The Great Flood

2. The Black Death/Bubonic Plague

3. The Holocaust

Dishonorable Mention: The unchecked rise of the Roman Catholic Church and the countless horrors that were and are still being committed in the name of Christ by said Church.

Answer 9

Bubonic Plague in Europe/The Flu Pandemic of 1918
African slavery
The Holocaust
I would want to include Chinese Isolationism in the 15th C. If they had chosen to engage with the rest of the world, to colonize and trade, this would be an entirely different world.

Answer 10

The Holocaust

The crusades

the holy inquisition

Then: slavery, 911, and what Stanly did with the Russians