ALL WARS ON EARTH? and their victims in last 1200 years?

Question

I'm doing a personal research on all the wars on earth (from 800AD until 2007). All the wars, from Djingis khan .... until last 100 years including S/N Korean, Russian revolutions, Balkans, World Wars, Civilian wars, African wars...etc.

Does someone know where online can I find those informations, and it would be great if there are approximate victims of those wars.



Thanks!

Answer 1

You are talking about a LOT of conflicts, and the definition of what constitutes a "war" can be kinda fuzzy. For instance, "World War I" and "World War II" can be regarded (and is by many) as two phases of the same conflict. And, in the USA, was the genocide of the natives one war or several? Is the conflict in Israel always a war, or sometimes just a bunch of thugs acting out, breaking into actual war only every decade or so? Also also, the further back in history you go, the less actual history you will encounter (the Ottoman Empire was not real interested in documenting their "war" on some of their subject peoples, like the Armenians).
What I am saying here is that you have set yourself a daunting task. Twelve centuries is a lot of time to cover. If it were I, I would narrow either my timeframe or my definition of what constitutes a "real" war, as opposed to an internal conflict or border skirmish.
You can do this either by limiting duration, number of nations involved, number of combatants, number of casualties (though again, the further back you go, the worse the numbers will be), and so forth.
Once you have determined your limiting factor, you can use that to narrow your on-line search, such as "Wars Casualties >50,000" or whatever you like.
Just a suggestion.

Answer 2

Keep in mind while doing your research that more wars where fought in the name of religion than any other single reason.

Answer 3

Try Googling firstly for wars - create a list of them.......then Google each of the wars.