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The largest wars in human history in terms of the number of deaths.

The earliest war on which there is evidence of excavations took place about 14,000 years ago.

It is impossible to calculate the exact number of victims, since in addition to the death of soldiers on the battlefield, there is also the death of civilians from the effects of weapons of war, as well as the death of civilians from the consequences of hostilities, for example, from hunger, hypothermia, disease.

Below is a list of the largest wars by number of casualties.

The reasons for the wars mentioned below are very different, but the number of victims exceeds millions.

1. Civil War in Nigeria (Biafra War of Independence). The death toll is over 1,000,000.

The main conflict took place between the government forces of Nigeria and the separatists of the Republic of Biafra. The self-proclaimed republic was supported by a number of European states, among them, such as France, Portugal, Spain. Nigeria was supported by Britain and the USSR. The UN did not recognize the self-proclaimed republic. Weapons and finances were sufficient on one side and the other. The main victims of the war are the civilian population, who were dying of hunger and various diseases.

2. Imjin war. The death toll is over 1,000,000.

1592 - 1598: Japan made 2 invasions of the Korean Peninsula in 1592 and 1597, both incursions failed to capture territory. The first invasion from Japan involved 220,000 soldiers, several hundred combat and transport ships.

Korean troops were defeated, but at the end of 1592, China transferred part of the army to Korea, but was defeated, in 1593, China transferred another part of the army, which managed to achieve some success. Peace was made. The second invasion of 1597 was not successful for Japan and in 1598 hostilities ceased.

3. Iran-Iraq War (death toll: 1 million)

1980-1988 years. The longest running war in the 20th century, which began with the invasion of Iraq on September 22, 1980. The war can be called positional - trench warfare, using small arms. Chemical weapons were widely used in the war. The initiative passed from one side to the other, so in 1980 the successful offensive of the Iraqi army was stopped, and in 1981 the initiative went over to the side of Iraq. An armistice was signed on August 20, 1988.

4. Korean War (death toll: 1.2 million)

1950-1953 years. War between North and South Korea. The war began with the North Korean invasion of the territory South Korea... Despite North Korea's support The Soviet Union, Stalin opposed the war, because he feared that this conflict could lead to World War III and even nuclear war. On July 27, 1953, a ceasefire was signed.

5. Mexican Revolution (death toll between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000)

1910-1917. The revolution radically changed Mexico's culture and government policies. But at that time the population of Mexico was 15 million people and the losses during the revolution were significant. The preconditions for the revolution were very different, but in the end, with the cost of millions of victims, Mexico strengthened its sovereignty and weakened its dependence on the United States.

6. The conquests of Chuck's army. First half of the 19th century. (death toll 2,000,000)

The local ruler Chaka (1787 - 1828) founded the state - KwaZulu. He collected and armed a large army, which conquered the disputed territories. The army plundered and plundered the tribes in the occupied territories. Tribes of local aborigines became victims.

7. Goguryosu-sui wars (death toll 2,000,000)

These wars include a series of wars between the Chinese Sui Empire and the Korean state of Goguryeo. Wars took place on the following dates:

· war of 598

· war of 612

· war of 613

· war of 614

Ultimately, the Koreans managed to repel the Chinese offensive and win.

The total number of human casualties is much higher, since civilian casualties are not included.

8. Religious wars in France (death toll between 2,000,000 and 4,000,000)

The religious wars in France are also known as the Huguenot wars. Occurred from 1562 to 1598. Arose on religious grounds as a result of the conflict between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots). In 1998, the Edict of Nantes was adopted, which legalized freedom of religion. On August 24, 1572, Catholics staged a mass beating of Protestants, first in Paris and then throughout France. It happened on the eve of the feast of St. Barthomew, this day went down in history as Bartholomew's night, that day more than 30,000 people died in Paris.

9. Second Congolese War (death toll from 2,400,000 to 5,400,000)

The deadliest war in the history of modern Africa, also known as the African world War and Great War Africa. The war lasted from 1998 to 2003, involving 9 states and more than 20 separate armed groups. The main victims of the war are the civilian population, which died due to disease and hunger.

10. Napoleonic Wars (death toll from 3,000,000 to 6,000,000)

Napoleonic Wars - an armed conflict between France led by Napoleon Bonaparte, with a number of European states, including Russia. Thanks to Russia, Napoleon's army was defeated. Different sources provide different data on victims, but the greatest number scientists believe that the number of victims, including civilians, from hunger and epidemics reaches 5,000,000.

11. Thirty Years War (death toll from 3,000,000 to 11,500,000)

1618 - 1648. The war began as a conflict between Catholics and Protestants in the crumbling Holy Roman Empire, but gradually a number of other states were drawn into it. The number of victims from the Thirty Years War, according to most scientists, is 8,000,000.

12. Chinese Civil War (death toll 8,000,000)

The Chinese Civil War was fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang (political party of the Republic of China) and forces loyal to the Chinese Communist Party. The war began in 1927, and it essentially ended when the main active fighting ceased in 1950. Although historians call the end date of the war December 22, 1936, the conflict ultimately led to the formation of two de facto states, the Republic of China (now known as Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China in mainland China. During the war, both sides carried out massive atrocities.

13. Civil war in Russia (death toll from 7,000,000 to 12,000,000)

1917 - 1922. Struggle for power of various political trends, armed groups. But mainly the two largest and most organized forces fought - the Red Army and White Army... The Russian Civil War is considered the greatest national catastrophe in Europe in the entire history of its existence. The main victims of the war are the civilian population.

14. Wars led by Tamerlane (the number of victims from 8,000,000 to 20,000,000)

In the second half of the 14th century, Tamerlane led cruel, bloody conquests in the Western, Southern, Central Asia, in the south of Russia. Tamerlane became the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world, conquering Egypt, Syria and Ottoman Empire... Historians believe that at the hands of his soldiers, 5% of the entire population of the Earth died then.

15. Dungan Uprising (death toll from 8,000,000 to 20,400,000)

1862 - 1869. The Dungan Uprising is an ethnic and religious war between the Han people (a Chinese ethnic group originally from East Asia) and Chinese Muslims. The leaders of the rebels against the existing government were the spiritual mentors of Xinjiao, who declared jihad wrong.

16. Conquest of the Americas (casualties from 8,400,000 to 148,000,000)

1492 - 1691. Over 200 years of colonizing America, tens of millions of local people have been killed european colonialists... However, there is no exact number of casualties as there are no initial estimates of the original Native American population. The conquest of America is the largest extermination of the native population by other peoples in history.

17. An Lushan rebellion (the number of victims from 13,000,000 to 36,000,000)

755 - 763 A.D. Revolt against the Tang Dynasty. According to scientists, up to two children of the entire population of China could have died in the course of this conflict.

18. World War I (death toll 18,000,000)

1914-1918 years. War between groups of states in Europe and their allies. The war claimed 11 million soldiers who died directly in the fighting. 7 million civilians died during the war.

19. Taiping Rebellion (20,000,000 - 30,000,000 casualties)

1850 - 1864. Peasant uprising in China. The Taiping Rebellion spread throughout China against the Manchu Qing Dynasty. With the support of England and France, the Qing troops brutally suppressed the rebels.

20. Manchu conquest of China (death toll 25 million)

1618-1683 War of the Qing Dynasty, over the conquest of the territories of the Ming Dynasty.

As a result of long wars and various battles, the Manchu dynasty managed to conquer almost all of the strategic territories of China. The war claimed tens of millions of human lives.

21. Sino-Japan War (casualties 25,000,000 - 30,000,000)

1937 - 1945. War between the Republic of China and the Japanese Empire. Selected fighting began in 1931. The war ended with the defeat of Japan with the help of allied forces, mainly the USSR. The United States delivered 2 nuclear strikes against Japan, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On September 9, 1945, the government of the Republic of China accepted the surrender from the commander of Japanese forces in China, General Okamura Yasuji.

22. Wars of the Three Kingdoms (death toll 36,000,000 - 40,000,000)

220-280 A.D. Not to be confused with the war (England, Scotland and Ireland between 1639 and 1651). The war of three states - Wei, Shu and Wu for complete power in the territory of China. Each of the parties tried to unite China under its own leadership. The bloodiest period in the history of China, which led to millions of victims.

23. Mongol conquests (casualties 40,000,000 - 70,000,000)

1206 - 1337 Raids across Asia and Eastern Europe to form a state Golden Horde... The raids were notable for their brutality. The Mongols spread the bubonic plague over vast territories, from which people died without immunity to this disease.

24. World War II (casualties 60,000,000 - 85,000,000)

The most brutal war in the history of mankind, when people were destroyed along racial and ethnic lines using technical devices. The extermination of peoples was organized by the rulers of Germany and their allies led by Hitler. Up to 100 million troops fought on the battlefields on both sides. With the decisive role of the USSR, fascist Germany and her allies were defeated.

IN a huge place in the history of mankind is occupied by various wars.
They redrawn maps, gave birth to empires, destroyed peoples and nations. The earth remembers wars that lasted more than a century. We recall the most protracted military conflicts in the history of mankind.

1. War without shots (335 years old)

The longest and most curious of the wars is the war between the Netherlands and the Scilly Archipelago, which is part of Great Britain.

Due to the absence of a peace treaty, it formally lasted 335 years without a single shot, which makes it one of the longest and most curious wars in history, and even a war with the least losses.

Peace was officially declared in 1986.

2. Punic War (118 years old)

By the middle of the 3rd century BC. the Romans almost completely subjugated Italy, swung at the entire Mediterranean and wanted Sicily first. But this rich island was also claimed by the powerful Carthage.

Their claims were unleashed by 3 wars that dragged on (intermittently) from 264 to 146. BC. and got their name from the Latin name of the Phoenicians-Carthaginians (Punov).

The first (264-241) - 23 years old (started just because of Sicily).
The second (218-201) - 17 years old (after the capture of the Spanish city of Sagunta by Hannibal).
Last (149-146) - 3 years.
It was then that the famous phrase "Carthage must be destroyed!" Was born. Pure hostilities took 43 years. The total conflict is 118 years.

Results: The besieged Carthage fell. Rome won.

3. Hundred Years War (116 years)

I went in 4 stages. With pauses for truce (the longest - 10 years) and the fight against the plague (1348) from 1337 to 1453.

Opponents: England and France.

Reasons: France wanted to oust England from the southwestern lands of Aquitaine and complete the unification of the country. England - to strengthen its influence in the province of Guyenne and return those lost under John the Landless - Normandy, Maine, Anjou. Complication: Flanders - formally was under the auspices of the French crown, in fact it was free, but depended on English wool for cloth making.

Occasion: claims english king Edward III of the Plantagenet-Anjou dynasty (maternal grandson of the French king Philip IV the Beautiful from the Capetian clan) to the Gallic throne. Allies: England - Germanic feudal lords and Flanders. France - Scotland and the Pope. Army: British - mercenary. Under the command of the king. The basis is the infantry (archers) and knightly detachments. French - knightly militia, led by royal vassals.

A turning point: after the execution of Joan of Arc in 1431 and the Battle of Normandy, the French people's national liberation war began with the tactics of partisan raids.

Results: On October 19, 1453, the British army surrendered in Bordeaux. Having lost everything on the continent except the port of Calais (remained English for another 100 years). France switched to a regular army, abandoned the knightly cavalry, gave preference to the infantry, the first firearms appeared.

4. Greco-Persian War (50 years)

Cumulatively - wars. Dragged on with lulls from 499 to 449. BC. They are divided into two (the first - 492-490, the second - 480-479) or three (the first - 492, the second - 490, the third - 480-479 (449). For the Greek city-states - battles for independence. For the Achaeminid Empire - aggressive.

Trigger: Ionian Uprising. The battle of the Spartans at Thermopylae became legendary. The battle of Salamis became the turning point. The point was put by the "Kalliev World".

Results: Persia lost the Aegean Sea, the coasts of the Hellespont and the Bosphorus. Recognized the freedom of the cities of Asia Minor. The civilization of the ancient Greeks entered the time of the greatest prosperity, having laid the culture, which, even after thousands of years, the world was equal to.

4. The Punic War. The battles lasted 43 years. They are divided into three phases of the wars between Rome and Carthage. They fought for dominion in the Mediterranean. The Romans won the battle. Basetop.ru

5. Guatemalan War (36 years old)

Civil. It proceeded in flares from 1960 to 1996. A provocative decision made american President Eisenhower in 1954, initiated a coup.

Reason: the fight against the "communist infection".

Opponents: Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity bloc and military junta.

Victims: almost 6 thousand murders were committed annually, only in the 80s - 669 massacres, more than 200 thousand dead (of which 83% were Maya Indians), over 150 thousand were missing. Outcome: signing of the "Treaty for a Lasting and Lasting Peace", which protected the rights of 23 groups of Native Americans

Outcome: signing of the "Treaty for a Lasting and Lasting Peace", which protected the rights of 23 groups of Native Americans.

6. War of the Scarlet and White Rose (33 years old)

The confrontation of the English nobility - supporters of the two ancestral branches of the Plantagenet dynasty - Lancaster and York. It stretched from 1455 to 1485.
Prerequisites: "bastard feudalism" - the privilege of the English nobility to pay off military service from the lord, in whose hands were concentrated large funds with which he paid for the army of mercenaries, which became more powerful than the royal one.

Reason: England's defeat Hundred Years War, the impoverishment of the feudal lords, their rejection political course wife of the feeble-minded King Henry IV, hatred of her favorites.

Opposition: Duke Richard of York - considered the right to power of Lancaster illegitimate, became regent under the incapacitated monarch, in 1483 - king, killed in the Battle of Bosworth.

Results: Disrupted the balance of political forces in Europe. Lead to the collapse of the Plantagenets. Enthroned the Welsh Tudors, which ruled England for 117 years. Cost the lives of hundreds of English aristocrats.

7. Thirty Years War (30 years)

The first military conflict of a pan-European scale. Lasted from 1618 to 1648. Opponents: two coalitions. The first is the union of the Holy Roman Empire (in fact - Austrian) with Spain and the Catholic principalities of Germany. Second - german stateswhere power was in the hands of Protestant princes. They were supported by the armies of the reformist Sweden and Denmark and Catholic France.

Reason: The Catholic League was afraid of spreading the ideas of the Reformation in Europe, the Protestant Evangelical Union - they strove for this.

Trigger: revolt of Czech Protestants against Austrian rule.

Results: The population of Germany has decreased by a third. The French army lost 80 thousand. Austria and Spain - more than 120. After the Peace Treaty of Münster in 1648, a new independent state - the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (Holland) - was finally fixed on the map of Europe.

8. Peloponnesian War (27 years old)

There are two of them. The first is the Lesser Peloponnesian (460-445 BC). The second (431-404 BC) is the largest in the history of Ancient Greece after the first Persian invasion of the territory of Balkan Greece. (492-490 BC).

Opponents: the Peloponnesian Union led by Sparta and the First Marine (Delos) under the auspices of Athens.

Reasons: The desire for hegemony in the Greek world of Athens and the rejection of Sparta and Coryphane of their claims.

Contradictions: Athens was ruled by an oligarchy. Sparta is a military aristocracy. Ethnically, the Athenians were Ionians, the Spartans were Dorians. In the second, 2 periods are distinguished.

The first is "Archidam's War". The Spartans made land invasions into Attica. Athenians - sea raids on the coast of the Peloponnese. It ended in the 421st signing of the Nikiev Peace Treaty. 6 years later, it was violated by the Athenian side, which was defeated at the Battle of Syracuse. The final phase went down in history as the Dekelian or Ionian. With the support of Persia, Sparta built a fleet and destroyed the Athenian at Egospotam.

Results: After being imprisoned in April 404 BC. Feramenov's world Athens lost the fleet, tore down the Long Walls, lost all colonies and joined the Spartan Union.

9. Great north War (21 years old)

The Northern War has been going on for 21 years. She was between the northern states and Sweden (1700-1721), opposition to Peter I Charles XII... Russia fought mostly on its own.

Reason: Possession of the Baltic lands, control over the Baltic.

Results: With the end of the war in Europe, a new empire arose - the Russian one, which has access to the Baltic Sea and has powerful army and the fleet. The capital of the empire was St. Petersburg, located at the confluence of the Neva River into the Baltic Sea.

Sweden lost the war.

10. Vietnam War (18 years old)

The second Indochina war of Vietnam with the United States and one of the most destructive of the second half of the 20th century. It lasted from 1957 to 1975. 3 periods: guerrilla South Vietnamese (1957-1964), from 1965 to 1973 - full-scale US military operations, 1973-1975. - after the withdrawal of American troops from the Viet Cong territories. Opponents: South and North Vietnam. On the side of the South - the United States and the military bloc SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization). North - China and the USSR.

The reason: when the communists came to power in China, and Ho Chi Minh became the leader of South Vietnam, the White House administration was afraid of the communist domino effect. In the aftermath of Kennedy's assassination, Congress gave President Lyndon Johnson carte blanche in the Tonkin Resolution for the use of military force. And already in March 65, two battalions of US Navy SEALs left for Vietnam. So the States became part of the Vietnamese Civil War. They applied the strategy of "find and destroy", burned the jungle with napalm - the Vietnamese went underground and responded with guerrilla war.

Who benefits from: American arms corporations. Losses of the United States: 58 thousand in hostilities (64% under the age of 21) and about 150 thousand suicides of American military veterans.

Vietnamese victims: more than 1 million fighters and more than 2 civilians, in South Vietnam alone - 83 thousand amputees, 30 thousand blind, 10 thousand deaf, after the operation "Ranch Hand" (chemical destruction of the jungle) - congenital genetic mutations.

Outcome: The Tribunal of May 10, 1967 qualified the actions of the United States in Vietnam as a crime against humanity (Article 6 of the Nuremberg Statute) and banned the use of CBU-type termite bombs as weapons of mass destruction.

Various wars occupy a huge place in the history of mankind.
They redrawn maps, gave birth to empires, destroyed peoples and nations. The earth remembers wars that lasted more than a century. We recall the most protracted military conflicts in the history of mankind.

1. War without shots (335 years old)

The longest and most curious of the wars is the war between the Netherlands and the Scilly Archipelago, which is part of Great Britain.

Due to the absence of a peace treaty, it formally lasted 335 years without a single shot, which makes it one of the longest and most curious wars in history, and even a war with the least losses.

Peace was officially declared in 1986.

2. Punic War (118 years)

Their claims were unleashed by 3 wars that dragged on (intermittently) from 264 to 146. BC. and got their name from the Latin name of the Phoenicians-Carthaginians (Punov).

Results: The besieged Carthage fell. Rome won.

3. Hundred Years War (116 years)

I went in 4 stages. With pauses for truce (the longest - 10 years) and the fight against the plague (1348) from 1337 to 1453.

Opponents: England and France.

Reason: the claims of the English king Edward III of the Plantagenet-Anjou dynasty (maternal grandson of the French king Philip IV the Beautiful from the Capetian clan) to the Gaulish throne. Allies: England - Germanic feudal lords and Flanders. France - Scotland and the Pope. Army: British - mercenary. Under the command of the king. The basis is the infantry (archers) and knightly detachments. French - knightly militia, led by royal vassals.

A turning point: after the execution of Joan of Arc in 1431 and the Battle of Normandy, the French people's national liberation war began with the tactics of partisan raids.

4. Greco-Persian War (50 years)

5. Guatemalan War (36 years old)

Civil. It proceeded in flares from 1960 to 1996. A provocative decision made by US President Eisenhower in 1954 triggered a coup.

Reason: the fight against the "communist infection".

Opponents: Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity bloc and military junta.

Outcome: signing of the "Treaty for a Lasting and Lasting Peace", which protected the rights of 23 groups of Native Americans.

6. War of the Scarlet and White Rose (33 years old)

Reason: England's defeat in the Hundred Years War, the impoverishment of the feudal lords, their rejection of the political course of the wife of the feeble-minded King Henry IV, hatred of her favorites.

Opposition: Duke Richard of York - considered the right to power of Lancaster illegitimate, became regent under the incapacitated monarch, in 1483 - king, killed in the Battle of Bosworth.

7. Thirty Years War (30 years)

The first military conflict of a pan-European scale. Lasted from 1618 to 1648. Opponents: two coalitions. The first is the union of the Holy Roman Empire (in fact - Austrian) with Spain and the Catholic principalities of Germany. The second - the German states, where power was in the hands of Protestant princes. They were supported by the armies of the reformist Sweden and Denmark and Catholic France.

Reason: The Catholic League was afraid of spreading the ideas of the Reformation in Europe, the Protestant Evangelical Union - they strove for this.

Trigger: revolt of Czech Protestants against Austrian rule.

8. Peloponnesian War (27 years old)

Opponents: the Peloponnesian Union led by Sparta and the First Marine (Delos) under the auspices of Athens.

Reasons: The desire for hegemony in the Greek world of Athens and the rejection of Sparta and Coryphane of their claims.

Contradictions: Athens was ruled by an oligarchy. Sparta is a military aristocracy. Ethnically, the Athenians were Ionians, the Spartans were Dorians. In the second, 2 periods are distinguished.

Results: After being imprisoned in April 404 BC. Feramenov's world Athens lost the fleet, tore down the Long Walls, lost all colonies and joined the Spartan Union.

9. Great Northern War (21 years old)

The Northern War has been going on for 21 years. She was between the northern states and Sweden (1700-1721), the opposition of Peter I to Charles XII. Russia fought mostly on its own.

Reason: Possession of the Baltic lands, control over the Baltic.

Results: With the end of the war in Europe, a new empire arose - the Russian one, which has access to the Baltic Sea and has a powerful army and navy. The capital of the empire was St. Petersburg, located at the confluence of the Neva River into the Baltic Sea.

Sweden lost the war.

10. Vietnam War (18 years old)

Who benefits from: American arms corporations. Losses of the United States: 58 thousand in hostilities (64% under the age of 21) and about 150 thousand suicides of American military veterans.

Wars have haunted humanity in all eras - as soon as a person learned to throw stones and beat with a club, he immediately began to fight for territories, and even today, in the third millennium, wars are still an integral part of our life. But where did it all start and what was the very first war in human history?

Echoes of War: In Search of Facts

Unfortunately for historians, they have to look not for the very first wars, but for data about them. Most likely, wars began long before there was a way to pass on knowledge about them to descendants (writing, drawing, legends). So traditionally, the term "First War in History" refers to a war about which clear evidence and facts have survived.

Searching for places of clashes and, on their basis, determining the data of the belligerents is a very difficult task, since in ancient times the belligerents could not afford to throw their weapons on the battlefield, and killed enemies were robbed to the skin. However, once luck smiled upon the seekers of truth: in Northern Kenya they managed to find clear traces of the battle. It happened in the Nataruk region about 10,000 years ago.

The first war: what archaeologists learned

First of all, the researchers were attracted by the accumulation of well-preserved bodies with traces of violent death. A more accurate analysis showed that they died mainly from knives. And then nearby

found arrowheads, which the winners, apparently, did not find or decided not to take with them. This is exactly how it was determined that it was precisely a planned skirmish, and not an accident. Although this is only a small skirmish in modern times, it is possible that it was once part of a large battle between clans or tribes.

Precise data: walls helped scientists

If we talk about precisely established time intervals, then the first war took place around the seventh millennium BC. Excavations helped famous city Jericho - near it, archaeologists found fortified walls about 5 meters high and ditches with water, which indirectly testifies to military activity. Most likely, the inhabitants of the city thus established a defense against overly nimble neighbors.

But the first known document, which describes the war, dates from a much later period - 2700 BC. It belongs to the chronicles of the ancient Sumerians - "Tsar's lists" - and describes the victory of the Sumerian king En-Mebaragesi over the neighboring state of Elam. So it is the Sumerian-Elamite conflict that officially bears the title of the first war in human history.

Almost every nation who lived and lives on our planet has had a war. The earliest evidence of war was in 1472 BC. This very first war took place between Egyptians and Palestinians. Humanity began to take the largest military actions in the second half of the 19th century. But the very first war in history happened much earlier than this time.

Today it is difficult to determine when the very first war in the world began and ended. But according to the first official testimony of archaeologists and historians, it was proved that the very first war took place between the Palestinians and the Egyptians. This war began in 1472 BC, during the reign of King Cadet. The Hyksos king provoked the people of Palestine to revolt against the Egyptians.

After a while, several other tribes joined the Cadet, who also opposed the inhabitants of Egypt. In 1469 BC. Pharaoh of Egypt Thutmose III decided to gather an army, which consisted of 20 thousand soldiers. Together with the army, he confidently began to attack the territory of the Palestinians. The largest battle in the very first war in history took place near Meggido Fortress. Compared to Thutmose III, the Cadet had a small army. The Egyptian military is stationed in the Meggido Valley, which is in the center of Palestine. As a result of the battle, the Egyptian troops were able to easily cope with the Palestinians and thus they broke into the valley. The cadet and his associates fled, and the rest of the military was defeated.

During the very first war in the world, the Egyptians showed themselves as real conquerors, they killed and robbed the military, as well as civilians. After seven months, the inhabitants of the fortress decided to surrender, because they could not withstand the pressure of the Egyptian army. The Egyptian army took from Palestine about a thousand chariots and cattle, as well as about two thousand horses. Then the army destroyed the largest fortresses in Palestine and with the help of all the debris, they built their own fortress. In Meggido, about 330 princes were captured, but they almost immediately went over to the side of the pharaoh. Thus, they recognized Thutmose III as their ruler. But all the other local residents did not give up. To eradicate the insurgency for good, the Egyptian army made 15 campaigns in Palestine during the very first war in the world. In the end, Thutmose III achieved what he wanted.