List of Largest Multicides (Principia Moderni IV Map Game)

Although we may not admit it, history is defined by events that killed large numbers of people. Whether its slavary, colonization, despots or world conquerors, the most pivotal moments of history function as a race for the ranks in an ever-increasing scale of death tolls. As the most detailed community timeline on the wiki (Principia Moderni IV), we cannot ignore the same morbid statistics that contribute to our history.

A multicide is a man-made event that kills multiple people, or multiple events from the same source. This is sometimes called a genocide; however, the technical definition of a genocide is a very narrow term only used officially on two occasions: World War Two and the Rwanda Genocide.

In OTL, the top 100 largest multicides in history all killed over 300,000 people (such as the Social War), and goes up to 66 million people (in the Second World War). About half are over 1 million in death toll and the other half are less than 1 million. In general, multicides that come from the same source are linked together: the French Revolution is part of the Napoleonic Wars, the Armenian Genocide is part of the First World War, and the Holocaust is part of the Second World War. However, if the events are too random and sporatic they can be separated. For instance, the Muslim Conquest of India from the 10th-18th centuries AD killed 45 million people, but because of how random and inconsistant it was its not included on the top 100. Also, the various conflicts with fascism and communism in the first half of the 20th century (the Hemoclysm) is sometimes thought to be one event that killed 150 million people, but this is also not included.

The following is a list of multicides that fit within the PMIV universe. Due to the nature of the list, only include multicides that kill over 300,000 people. Sometimes, even a very brutal or terrifying war can result in a small death toll, thus not making the list. Try to keep events that are closely-related grouped together. Although many entries on this list will be military conflicts, this isn't a glorified algo archive (we have a separate page for that). Try to be broad and creative. For the "who gets the blame" column, think of just one individual who is associated with the conflict, even if he didn't do much himself (for example, Christopher Columbus is responsible for the Colonization of the Americas, even though he didn't kill much himself). If no one immediately comes to mind, just leave it blank.

For the classification column, you can put whatever you want there, but here are some general bins I use for the list (you can also use combinations if necessary):
 * World Conqueror: One guy waging external wars bent on global domination (think: Alexander the Great)
 * Ethnic Civil War: A large-scale conflict in the nation where the broad dividing line is over ethnic, linguistic, or religious reasons (think: the Social War)
 * Dynastic Dispute: A large-scale conflict based mostly on the reason of who should succeed to the throne (think: the Hundred Years War)
 * Failed State: The nation straight up collapses for a variety of reasons, either breaking up in smaller pieces or being conquored by a larger force (think: the Fall of the Western Roman Empire)
 * Ritual Killing: People are routinely, or even voluntarily killed during peace time for religious or ritualistic reasons (think: Aztec Human Sacrifice)
 * Religious War: Military conflict mostly based on just one religion is better than the other (think: the Crusades)
 * Peasent Revolt: An oppressed lower class of society (peasents, serfs or slaves) fights back (think: Severan Wars)
 * Despot: A tyrant slaughters people who get in his way, or just people who are opposed to his modernization (think: Qin Shi Huang)
 * Commercial Exploitation: People dying by being in the way of economic enterprises, such as slavary or colonization (think: the Colonization of the Americas)
 * Hegmonial War: Two or more nations of roughly equal power go to war over mostly territorial reasons (think: Second Punic War)
 * Clash of Cultures: An empire expanding in unfamilar territory winds up at war with the natvies over vast cultural differneces (think: Greco-Persian Wars)
 * Ethnic Cleansing: An unpopular or dangerous minority is wiped out from the nation, or almost is, usually during peacetime (think: Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland)

Before 1400 AD
These multcides completely concluded before the game began, and so are fixed on the top 100 list.

Ongoing in 1400 AD
These multicides were still going on at the time the game began, and finished during the game. Thus, it is possible some of the death toll and dates were altered in the game. I have tried to esitmate the differences myself, but the acutal players can double-check for me.

After 1400 AD with OTL Counterparts
These multicides started during the game, but were based on OTL events elsewhere on the 100 list. This is usually due to the causes of the multicide already existing when the game began, and so there is no way to prevent it from happening. (The best example of this is the Aztec Human Sacrifice. It started in 1435, but the culture and religion of the Aztecs was already there). Other times, of course, the event has an OTL counterpart just for the sake of having it :)

NOTE: If your event has an OTL counterpart, but the counterpart killed less than 300,000 people, it belongs on the next list below, not this one.

After 1400 AD with no OTL Counterpart
This list are for any other interesting multicide you commit, straight from your own imagination. Some events on this list do have OTL counterparts, but those counterparts had a very small death count OTL.