World Battleground, 1000 years of war in 5 minutes

This animation shows all important battles that took place over the last ten centuries. The sizes of the explosions and labels are proportional to the number of casualties. The music is "Ride Of The Valkyries" by Richard Wagner. The data comes from the wikipedia article, List of Battles.
Most of the activity seems to happen in Europe, this is because the english wikipedia was used. In a future release of this video I will merge wikipedias in different languages to solve this bias.

[ravenlord]

Saddest part - "to be continued"

[CoralPolyps]

Fucking WW2 man. Just the whole screen exploded XD

[GamesLegitament]

Everyone is saying that Europe started more wars, but that's really not true. Europeans are just better at writing stuff down.

[PaiSAMSEN]

before 1800 : Sh*t
1800-1900 : Holy sh*t
1900-1945 : Motherf*cking holy sh*t

[matteslambertus]

This is restricted to historical Data though. So I guess Europe just had the best documentation. of Data of the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, the Egyptian Empire and so on were lost long

[EnemyOG]

And we say our species will live for millions of years...

[Fausto_moh]

was lowkey waiting on the first world wars and i was not let down lol

[AgarthaFan]

We need the final world war to finish up this epic trilogy

[aemiil]

4:20 Europe: **fire mode enabled**
Rest of the world: WHAT THE F---?

[rpd]

After 1500 everyone starts getting triggered

[DrewPicklesTheDark]

Why Europe has the most.

1: Europe had an obsession with writing everything down, they have the most written history.
2: Europe had organized armies and large-scale battles, while many other regions were still having tribal skirmishes.
3: Europe was the most technologically advanced region for over 1000 years (And thus a more efficient method of killing others).
4: Europe was very compact and densely populated, so fighting over land and/or resources was more likely to occur.
5: From the ages of the Celts, Vikings, Germanic Tribes, etc. up until the end of WW2 European culture has been very battle-centric.

I am aware the Mediterranean and Middle East beat Europe to a lot of those, but Europe took them to a whole new level.

[legendarymuramasa]

What's with the explosions? Must be Gandhi's Nukes

[jonasdalbakk]

And while all these countries are fighting eachother, Canada and Australia is just sitting there, quietly and peacefully and just watch. Lol

[nintsikka]

World war II: The whole world is a one big explosion

[mummypie]

Outside europe only a small portion of major battles are put into this video.

[GKartik_guru]

Glad to watch "To be continued" rather than "THE END"...

[rousseauchess]

I love how you actually represented 3rd century battles with a nuclear bomb

[Pomlithe]

THANKS FOR SHOWING EVERYONE MY EMAIL GOOGLE.
GOD I LOVE THIS GREAT NEW COMMENT SYSTEM.

[calvaughan]

Me: So WW1 was pretty big...
A wild WW2 Appears
Me: Holy motherfucking shit what the fuck was that!

[JohnSchoolingJr]

funny how Europe has been in battle almost 80% of the last 1000 years.