Technological advances, and the rush for territory and resources. But you have missed other wars. Major conflicts happening everywhere else throughout all those periods. It isn't unique to one type of demographic.
A bigger killer was WW1. Not even mentioned in your rather fake version. But wars in the 1800s and previous were brutal. Napoleon. Golden City. much more America.
The more population has expanded the more people are caught up in it. This goes back to Empire versus Empire. Persia. Greece, Rome, Egypt, a million troops, they even fielded larger armies then, huge battles of something close to like 10 million has been documented, it created rivers of blood, hacking away at each other. How big was the Mongol horde? What about the Huns?
I thought Persia was the largest it's stuck in my memory hole somehow. According to that 4,000,000 troops in the Word Wars facing each other. Look at the biggest causality, sacking of Bhagdad by the Mongols.
Sick. But China look at that. How are accurate are the records? Debatable. But multi millions put to the sword then. Nothing really changed. No cycle you're suggesting, the cycle is simple human ingenuity. Technology, territory, and power. Technology advancing has been one of the biggest killers, with it the rush for resources and territory. Outside of religion and creed.
It's not a matter of belief, it's a matter of reality being changed by the positions of various planets in orbit around our sun, etc., which it's not, except as you note, subjectively.
I'm agreeing with you that lots of people believe astrology to be true, and thus act on it. To that extent, it is "true"in that it changes real world behavior. But it is only "true" the same way the placebo effect it makes it true that a medicine works.
Astrology is fake and gay (unless, as in ancient times it was used to determine seasons for planting/harvest, etc.)
Technological advances, and the rush for territory and resources. But you have missed other wars. Major conflicts happening everywhere else throughout all those periods. It isn't unique to one type of demographic.
A bigger killer was WW1. Not even mentioned in your rather fake version. But wars in the 1800s and previous were brutal. Napoleon. Golden City. much more America.
The more population has expanded the more people are caught up in it. This goes back to Empire versus Empire. Persia. Greece, Rome, Egypt, a million troops, they even fielded larger armies then, huge battles of something close to like 10 million has been documented, it created rivers of blood, hacking away at each other. How big was the Mongol horde? What about the Huns?
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/deadliest-battles-in-human-history.html
I thought Persia was the largest it's stuck in my memory hole somehow. According to that 4,000,000 troops in the Word Wars facing each other. Look at the biggest causality, sacking of Bhagdad by the Mongols.
Here accuracy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
Sick. But China look at that. How are accurate are the records? Debatable. But multi millions put to the sword then. Nothing really changed. No cycle you're suggesting, the cycle is simple human ingenuity. Technology, territory, and power. Technology advancing has been one of the biggest killers, with it the rush for resources and territory. Outside of religion and creed.
It's not a matter of belief, it's a matter of reality being changed by the positions of various planets in orbit around our sun, etc., which it's not, except as you note, subjectively.
I'm agreeing with you that lots of people believe astrology to be true, and thus act on it. To that extent, it is "true"in that it changes real world behavior. But it is only "true" the same way the placebo effect it makes it true that a medicine works.