Wars by Era
2 major conflicts, 21 battles, and an estimated 19,800,000 dead.
A series of conflicts between England and France over the French throne, fought across generations and defined by legendary figures from the Black Prince to Joan of Arc. The war reshaped medieval Europe, ending English ambitions on the continent and forging modern French national identity.
11 battles · 2,800,000 dead
From a minor chieftain's son in war-torn Transoxiana, Timur — 'Tamerlane,' the Sword of Islam — built the last great nomadic empire, conquering from Delhi to Damascus to Ankara, erecting towers of skulls to terrorize his enemies, and leaving an estimated 17 million dead across three decades of relentless campaigning. His defeat of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I at Ankara in 1402 delayed the fall of Constantinople by half a century, while his descendants fostered the Timurid Renaissance that gave the world Ulugh Beg's observatory and the artistic traditions that would flower into the Mughal Empire.
10 battles · 17,000,000 dead