Define World Wars. To the people there It was a World War. Napoleon was fighting a World War. Genghis Khan was fighting a World War. I'm gonna guess the Christians fighting against Islam thought it was a World War.
Genghis Khan, and some persian wars, could be considered as early world wars as the wars were fought by multiple ethnic and religious groups across multiple different lands. The Napoleanic wars are the definitive precursor, and last major European war to be fought. It set the tone for how all future wars would be fought. The Christian crusaders and subsequent ottoman/turk wars in anatolia, the holy land, and in some instances Spain and North Africa are purely holy wars and not necessarily fought with armies set for any goal other than rid themselves of Islam/Christianity. The modern world wars however fought all across the globe, except maybe South America with the exception of Brazil both times. In ww1 French colonial forces of black africans fought in the trenches of the western front, Indians fought alongside brits along the western front, Russian slavs and deep Siberian euroasians fought against Germanic Austrians, Germans, and middle eastern Turks. Meanwhile the commonwealth
Nations of Britain from north America and the South Pacific fought alongside the British in the western front and at gallipoli. And then you have Japan seeking out German shipping and holdings in the Pacific. So that is a world war. Now that x12 is ww2.
World war as defined by my international relations professor. "5 or more great power nations waging sustained warfare on 3 or more continents. A significant body count is also part of the deal" so Napoleon is technically the first world war. Thats what i learned.
Just popping in to say that the Trojan war is something still debated as being something that existed as a large amount of historians believe it to just be a creation of homer's mind mixed with old Greek myths to be used as a delivery method for teachings and lessons on basic philosophical ideas and moral and logical lessons on life. It's a real hot spot when it comes to historical debate.
Lesbos is a real place and so is the poet that lesbians are named from and depending on how metaphorical you wanna get you could also say sirens that wanna wreck you also exist
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