what is the earliest example of genocide?

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Answer 1

CARTHAGE (by the Romans) - 149-146 B.C.

At least, that's the answer offered by Yale professor Ben Kiernan, a leading expert in this field (and the director of Yale University's Genocide Studies Program).

Example -- his article "The first genocide: Carthage, 146 BC. " (appearing in Diogenes, Sept 2004)
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-21589350_ITM

Now you MAY think he's changed his tune slightly, from the title his most recent book, *Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur* which came out just this September.

But he actually prefers to regard Sparta as a "precursor" to genocide, as he explains in the following clip from a recent interview connected with the book's release --

"in the case of Sparta, what we have is a fairly well documented combination of ethnic violence and subjection of another ethnic group by the Spartans. That is, the helots, or mostly Messenians, and their constant subjection to ethnic violence and killing. Also in Sparta, we have documented cases of what might be called political massacres, war crimes committed against other enemy groups which Sparta was at war with. But also in Sparta, we have the most heavily documented case of the agrarian influence on the regime, the idealization of agriculture, as well as of war. And in combination with the domination of a subjected ethnic group, the helots, then we have what I call a precursor to genocide, in the sense that Sparta did not necessarily take it in that full sense that we would call genocide today. But it did evoke some of the themes that are very important in genocidal cases later, including Carthage at the hands of the Romans."
http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/details.php?content=2007-09-27

You might also like to check out this transcript to a Kiernan speech in which he gives an overview of 20th century holocausts, but also notes ANCIENT themes they echo:
http://www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/docs/paper3.shtml

Answer 2

Here's a list of alleged genocides in approximate chronological order.

Genocide was not a word until WW2. It was coined in 1944 by a Polish Jew, Raphael Lemkin, from the root word genos ( Greek for tribe or race) and -cide ( Latin for killing). Lemkin campaigned for the international out-lawing of genocide, which was achieved in 1951.

Answer 3

Genocide has been a political/military attempt forever. What better way to end any opposition to anyones views than kill everyone who disagrees with you? Or discriminate against them? The problem is it backfires. People eventually realize it could happen to them to. Then they side against the government.

Answer 4

the sole occasion i will think of of is the Argentine military's marketing campaign in Patagonia as part of the 'Conquest of the barren region' in the nineteenth century. on an identical time as the slaughter pushed many indigenous peoples to the sting of extinction, it grow to be the subsequent murderous events of alternative commercial outsiders that brought about the disappearance of the Ona/Selknam tribe. The indigenous peoples of dissimilar Caribbean islands have been additionally made extinct in the early colonial era; maximum in all threat the epidemics and militia campaigns left survivors who have been absorbed into the interior of sight subculture. Edit: Yep, the Tasmanian extinction is a superb occasion. in spite of the undeniable fact that, we are wandering into the area of extinction by way of tension which incorporate violence, of which there are in all threat many events in historic previous. Many aboriginal peoples could have suffered this destiny in the recent international, countless Bushman peoples could have disappeared as Bantu tribes migrated south in historic Africa, and in accordance to modern DNA information, present day guy's events in all threat contributed very much to the extinction of the Neanderthals.

Answer 5

There is no such thing, just attempts.
Even the first registered genocide attempt of God has failed
Noah, and 8 more families survived that, because an angel
has informed them.
Since that angel is probably a heretic in God's heaven, but who cares?

Answer 6

Perhaps Egypt - the desolation of the Hebrew slaves? c. 1500BC