What is The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History?

Burning of the library of Alexandria.

So many potential Veeky Forums memes burned away.

^this

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The Miracles of the House of Branderburg.

Hitlers death

Fall of Constantinople.

The Holocaust

The Black Death

Anime

one of the genocides probably
i can't really rate them

Natural event: Black Death and the Colombian Exchange of diseases in the New World's case. Both combined easily killed 30% of the world population.

Manmade event: WWII, 2% of the world's population killed off by weapons alone.

Also makes one think how much a disease like Cholera and Smallpox can be to do more damage to us than the all the world's great powers using the most advanced weapons available.

Warsaw Uprising.

In terms of bloodshed this is the single bloodiest event in history:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_China_floods

Poland resurfacing as a country

CCP winning the Chinese Civil War.

Thanks Edgar Snow, Brooks Atkinson, Agnes Smedley. Thanks John Service, George Marshall, Joseph Stillwell.

Brazil.

There was probably an advanced human civilization before us, destroyed around 12800 years ago when the ice age was abruptly ended by cosmic impact.

They were probably similarly developed to our current state, situated in North America, and would have been completely wiped from the record by the effects of an impact upon the North American Ice Shelf, sparking the Missoula Flood. (not floods)

This probably completely erased an epoch of tens of thousands of years of human development, accounting for the massive gap between when we became evolutionarily modern and when we started to develop culture. It's also a likely source for ancient ideas of magic and religion as relics of a lost culture, akin to Egypt's backslide.

Much of our current understanding of early human history is wrong. We know about whats happened since Greece, mostly, but we have amnesia about our history before.

Hopefully it just doesn't happen again any time soon.

Americans importing west Africans because they didn't want to pick cotton themselves

Protestant reformation
Industrial revolution
French revolution
Recreation of Poland
Dissolution of Austria-Hungary
Creation of Israel

theirs like 2 bad things on that list, the rest a meh

this, up to 90% of Naive Americans died by accident

The invention of agriculture.

9/11

Birth of the jewish race, bloodline and culture.

This

The moment Humans gained sentience and realized the situation of our pitiful existence

seems probable

When Eurasia got KHAN'D

Largest event of mass murder in terms of ℅ of population

Self-awareness is the 'original sin'

"Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die." (Eccles. 25:22)

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The 4th crusade.

No its not. There would be some evidence. We'd be finding metal tools and pottery fragments in the soil layers from 12800 years ago.

The massive gap between reaching our current biological form and our developing culture isn't really that massive. Without technology, it takes a long long time for population to reach a density high enough for agriculture to make sense. Combine that with a few setbacks like the Toba eruption, and you can see it could easily have just taken ~90,000 years to develop civilization.

Definitely his birth

Melly

Losing in Empire Earth ;)

WWI

Unpopular opinion coming through, but his birth.

The end of the Qing dynasty

As an archaeology graduate-you're talking out your arse, there is absolutely no eveidence for an advanced antediluvian (for want of a better term) civilisation

Exactly. If we can find Oldowan tools from Homo Erectus remains we'd find an advanced culture from 15000 years ago. Huge disaters don't destroy every trace of material culture, they just bury it. We'd have definitely noticed it in the archaeological record by now, and probably hundreds of years ago

What of the Maltese ruts? Seems to me that a pre-ice age civillization seems likely. Not any aliens tier shit , but nontheless a civillization with social cohesion and castes and a fixed hierarchy

>Maltese ruts
What about them?

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They go right into the ocean, and continue underwater, making it likely that they were made when the sea level was lower, aka, pre-ice age.

That, and how there's no way to have made said ruts with any materials present on Malta, considering how they're made in the hardest mineral on the island. So, they must've been made with imported tools, before the last ice age.

Pompeii. Sounds like a pretty legit place. Now it's hardened lava.

Capitalism winning the Cold War

Dave quit, but I agree this is most tragic

this retarded thread

Nothing else even comes close if you ask me

This is fake
History will remember Donald as an absurdist hoax made up by Internet pranksters, it never actually happened.

do you reckon barron fantasizes about his mum?

Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan

And to add to this, also the celtic stones that also just go underneath the water and continue out to sea. Those in Britanny. Yeah, those. I forgot their name.

THey're reasonable evidence that there were pre-ice age civillizations.

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The Karnak stones? Those are from well before the Celts.

Does /x/ have anything interesting or is it all fake copypastas and spooky-circlejerks?

>Does Veeky Forums have anything interesting or is it all just /pol/ack race-baiting threads and stale memes?

You get my point though.

Sometimes they deal with believable conspiracies but it's mostly spoopy spaky skinwalkers

while we do have a /pol/ infestation, it really has some great threads like this one for example.

Honestly any thread spouting Hancock-tier garbage like this one can't be that good.

Jesus Christ rising from the dead

Actually you should thank the Empire of Japan, the Empire of China, Shanghai-Czech, and the Soong family.