In all of recorded history what war has produced the greatest number of human fatalities?

Question

What war, in all of human history has been the direct cause of the greatest number of human deaths both in military and civilian lives whether the dead were killed intentionaly or accidentaly durring the actual fighting, or by disease, famine, startvation, stress or whatever which was a direct result of the war?
I know that the American Civil War was the bloodiest for the United States with more than 600,000 dead.

Answer 1

World War II is the correct answer. I thought perhaps an older war might have had more losses, but here is the quote from Wikipedia:

Answer 2

LOL do you know what even Holocaust is ?? It was a planned elimination of an entire race which they very well succeed in. THE REASON BEHIND the unknown forgotten Hindu Holocaust would be cause there is no authentic proof of it happening. Would you believe in Mrs Wendy Doniger book the hindus an alternative history cause she is a well known historian too. And that book demeans the Hindu religion. Second the ancient era was more monarchic in nature and monarchs are expansionist. So I always ask this question WHY NOT ASK WHY A HINDU RULER KILLED HINDUS TO TAKE OVER ANOTHER HINDUS LAND. Best example ASHOKA . So the Muslims rulers were also the same as hindu rulers they killed for land and expansion not religion or race. Why do people forget the Mongols (They were not muslims) who did the same thing as Ahmed shah abdali. Third. According to you source then The biggest holocaust would bot be Hindu holocaust but Holocaust by Europe cause they manged to caputre the entire world killing millions even eliminating some tribes from the face of the planet. What about Alekander the great he was close to capturing the world must have killed millions why do we put a great in his name ?? Fourth How many Hindus there were to begin with ? and killed in what time frame and by whom ? Cause they might have the same religion but people feel and think differently. SADLY WE ALL KEEP CRYING HUE ABOUT PEOPLE DYING FROM THEIR RELIGION. Why do we not see a man, woman or child as a human being ? why do we have the need to divide ? What good does glorifying ones religion or culture get NOTHING BUT DIFFERENCES. A sad sad world we live in. Blinded by religion and no rational thought. We get nothing out of it only misery and only the rich and powerful who pull the strings get everything.

Answer 3

Well since you said"in ALL recorded History"

Even though most of the documents were destroyed because of warfare ( towns burning to the ground ) It was still recorded, just most the records were engulfed in flames.
My best educated guess would be the Roman crusades. It was a war that went on for centuries. I guess you say the whole dark ages produced the most fatalities.
Just look at the history there. There may have been certain named wars, but this era had SO MANY, they all bleed into one huge 300 year war.

And not to mention the Irish British war, that's STILL happening, and it started at the fall of the Roman Empire, that's a really long time to be fighting.

Answer 4

WW2 produced approx. 40 million casualties civil and military but the Taiping rebellion in China in the XXth century caused some 20 million deaths.

Answer 5

World War 2. You had civilians, several military people, relatives, just...everyone was killing everyone it seemed. World War 2 was definitely the greatest in number of fatalities.

Answer 6

actually the correct answer for Russian casualties is 24 million dead. 12 million soldiers died and 12 million civilians died.

if you factor in disease and famine and starvation amongst war causualties, the crusades would give you pretty high numbers, but I agree that WWII takes the cake.

Answer 7

World War II - twenty million dead by some estimates, quite possibly many more. 12 million dead in concentration camps alone, with many millions more dead by disease and starvation.

Not to mention millions of battlefield casualties.

Answer 8

The American Revolution against England killed the most per capita

Answer 9

Most got the answer right, only one got the right amount however, 62 million dead. ...20 million alone from the USSR.

Answer 10

ww2 for now. Muslims are determined to change that.