re: What was the darkest period in human history?

Posted by Sun God

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:18 pm to VolsOut4Harambe

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Posted by rickyh

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:19 pm to VolsOut4Harambe

The time of Noah. Only 8 people were left to repopulate the Earth.

Posted by dukke v

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:20 pm to Kafka

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Mass eruptions that demolished civilizations around Plank Road and Scenic Highway

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Kafka

Posted by Pepe Lepew

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:20 pm to VolsOut4Harambe

Night

Posted by biglego

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:20 pm to VolsOut4Harambe

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Crusades, Nazi Germany, and the rule of Genghis Khan

You don’t know much about the Cusades if you include them in the same sentence as those other two.

WWI
WWII
Black Death
Spanish flu
30 years war

Off the top of my head, these all were far more devastating in terms of death toll and suffering than the Crusades.

Posted by fr33manator

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:21 pm to Kentucker

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Nazis. The factory-like system of killing "undesirables" for the purpose of creating a "superior race" is the sickest, most disturbing act of inhumanity ever.

You must not be very knowledgeable of history. The Nazis simply brought modern tech and that Teutonic penchant for engineering and efficiency to an ages old genocide game.

This post was edited on 6/18/18 at 9:19 pm

Posted by AbuTheMonkey

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:22 pm to VolsOut4Harambe

14th century in general was pretty fricking awful for a lot of people all over the world:

- Plague
- Timur cutting a huge path of destruction all over the known world
- 100 Years War

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:22 pm to fr33manator

Who remembers the Armenians?

Posted by crazycubes

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:25 pm to Kafka

Any period where great knowledge was lost .

Fall of Rome is a good one. People were tearing apart the aqueducts for the stones. Rome had invented a crude steam engine. Imagine if we would have went through the Industrial Revolution in 50AD!

Posted by 3Son

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:28 pm to rickyh

After Eve ate the fruit.

Posted by The Boat

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:33 pm to Kentucker

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Nazis. The factory-like system of killing "undesirables" for the purpose of creating a "superior race" is the sickest, most disturbing act of inhumanity ever.

The Japs in WWII then Soviet Union and China after the war were way worse than the Nazis.

This post was edited on 6/18/18 at 6:33 pm

Posted by Cold Drink

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:44 pm to VolsOut4Harambe

Hiroshima and Nagasaki IMO. Not saying their use wasn’t justified, just the sheer fact that man developed and used such horrible weapons on one another.

Posted by Eli Goldfinger

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 6:45 pm to VolsOut4Harambe

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What was the darkest period in human history?

21-0

Amirite?

Posted by MC5601

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 7:07 pm to VolsOut4Harambe

When harambe died

Posted by TigerNlc

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 7:08 pm to VolsOut4Harambe

When the aliens attacked us on July 4th.

Posted by Lima Whiskey

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Posted on 6/18/18 at 7:11 pm to Tigeralum2008

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Fall of Rome to 1500

This is a something I really didn’t understand until I studied the period in college, but the Byzantines were Rome. So Rome really didn’t fall until 1453.

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