Wars by Era
2 major conflicts, 21 battles, and an estimated 35,075,000 dead.
From a unified Mongolia proclaimed by Genghis Khan in 1206, the Mongols built the largest contiguous land empire in history — stretching from Korea to Hungary and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf. Mounted archers of unmatched mobility and discipline shattered the Jin, Khwarezmian, Abbasid, Rus, and Song states in turn, sacking Samarkand, Baghdad, and Kyiv and bringing terror to the gates of Vienna. The conquests caused immense but unquantifiable mortality and remade the map of Eurasia, but also knit the continent together in a 'Pax Mongolica' of trade and exchange — until the empire fragmented and the Yuan dynasty was driven from China in 1368.
8 battles · 35,000,000 dead
When Edward I of England seized Scotland in 1296, he sparked a sixty-year struggle for its survival as a nation. William Wallace shattered an English army at Stirling Bridge; Robert the Bruce, crowned an outlaw king, won everything at Bannockburn; and though a second war reopened the wound, Scotland's independence — and its defiant Declaration of Arbroath — endured.
13 battles · 75,000 dead