What is The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History?

>>2537661
Bronze Age collapse.

My birth.

http://kotaku.com/5939184/anime-practical-joke-goes-over-the-line-and-incites-mass-flaming

>>2537661
The Big Bang.

>>2537661
WWI

>>2537678
His birth.

>>2537661
October Revolution

>>2537678

this dude's birth.

Cancellation of the Chappelle Show

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>>2537661
Burning of the library of Alexandria.

So many potential /his/ memes burned away.

>>2537678
^this

>>2537661
yo moma

>>2537661
The Miracles of the House of Branderburg.

Hitlers death

Fall of Constantinople.

>>2537661
The Holocaust

The Black Death

Anime

>>2537661
one of the genocides probably
i can't really rate them

>>2537661
Natural event: Black Death and the Colombian Exchange of diseases in the New World's case. Both combined easily killed 30% of the world population.

Manmade event: WWII, 2% of the world's population killed off by weapons alone.

Also makes one think how much a disease like Cholera and Smallpox can be to do more damage to us than the all the world's great powers using the most advanced weapons available.

>>2537661

Warsaw Uprising.

In terms of bloodshed this is the single bloodiest event in history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_China_floods

Poland resurfacing as a country

CCP winning the Chinese Civil War.

Thanks Edgar Snow, Brooks Atkinson, Agnes Smedley. Thanks John Service, George Marshall, Joseph Stillwell.

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Brazil.

There was probably an advanced human civilization before us, destroyed around 12800 years ago when the ice age was abruptly ended by cosmic impact.

They were probably similarly developed to our current state, situated in North America, and would have been completely wiped from the record by the effects of an impact upon the North American Ice Shelf, sparking the Missoula Flood. (not floods)

This probably completely erased an epoch of tens of thousands of years of human development, accounting for the massive gap between when we became evolutionarily modern and when we started to develop culture. It's also a likely source for ancient ideas of magic and religion as relics of a lost culture, akin to Egypt's backslide.

Much of our current understanding of early human history is wrong. We know about whats happened since Greece, mostly, but we have amnesia about our history before.

Hopefully it just doesn't happen again any time soon.

Americans importing west Africans because they didn't want to pick cotton themselves

>>2537661
Protestant reformation
Industrial revolution
French revolution
Recreation of Poland
Dissolution of Austria-Hungary
Creation of Israel

>>2538931
theirs like 2 bad things on that list, the rest a meh

>>2538157
this, up to 90% of Naive Americans died by accident

>>2537661
The invention of agriculture.

>>2537661
9/11

>>2537661
Birth of the jewish race, bloodline and culture.

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>>2537673
This

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The moment Humans gained sentience and realized the situation of our pitiful existence

>>2538901
seems probable

>>2537661
When Eurasia got KHAN'D

Largest event of mass murder in terms of ℅ of population

>>2539079
Self-awareness is the 'original sin'

"Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die." (Eccles. 25:22)

The 4th crusade.

>>2539106
No its not. There would be some evidence. We'd be finding metal tools and pottery fragments in the soil layers from 12800 years ago.

The massive gap between reaching our current biological form and our developing culture isn't really that massive. Without technology, it takes a long long time for population to reach a density high enough for agriculture to make sense. Combine that with a few setbacks like the Toba eruption, and you can see it could easily have just taken ~90,000 years to develop civilization.

>>2537678
Definitely his birth

>>2539233
Melly <3

>>2537661
Losing in Empire Earth ;)

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>>2537661
WWI

>>2537678
Unpopular opinion coming through, but his birth.

The end of the Qing dynasty

>>2538901
As an archaeology graduate-you're talking out your arse, there is absolutely no eveidence for an advanced antediluvian (for want of a better term) civilisation

>>2539577
Exactly. If we can find Oldowan tools from Homo Erectus remains we'd find an advanced culture from 15000 years ago. Huge disaters don't destroy every trace of material culture, they just bury it. We'd have definitely noticed it in the archaeological record by now, and probably hundreds of years ago

>>2540753
What of the Maltese ruts? Seems to me that a pre-ice age civillization seems likely. Not any aliens tier shit , but nontheless a civillization with social cohesion and castes and a fixed hierarchy

>>2540830
>Maltese ruts
What about them?

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>>2539233

>>2541271
They go right into the ocean, and continue underwater, making it likely that they were made when the sea level was lower, aka, pre-ice age.

That, and how there's no way to have made said ruts with any materials present on Malta, considering how they're made in the hardest mineral on the island. So, they must've been made with imported tools, before the last ice age.

>>2537661
Pompeii. Sounds like a pretty legit place. Now it's hardened lava.

Capitalism winning the Cold War

>>2537908
Dave quit, but I agree this is most tragic

>>2537661
this retarded thread

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>>2537862
Nothing else even comes close if you ask me

>>2539233
This is fake
History will remember Donald as an absurdist hoax made up by Internet pranksters, it never actually happened.

>>2539233
do you reckon barron fantasizes about his mum?

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>>2537661
Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan

>>2541318
And to add to this, also the celtic stones that also just go underneath the water and continue out to sea. Those in Britanny. Yeah, those. I forgot their name.

THey're reasonable evidence that there were pre-ice age civillizations.

>>2538901
>>>/x/

>>2541484

The Karnak stones? Those are from well before the Celts.

>>2541492
Does /x/ have anything interesting or is it all fake copypastas and spooky-circlejerks?

>>2541513
>Does /his/ have anything interesting or is it all just /pol/ack race-baiting threads and stale memes?

>>2541495
You get my point though.

>>2541513
Sometimes they deal with believable conspiracies but it's mostly spoopy spaky skinwalkers

>>2541524
while we do have a /pol/ infestation, it really has some great threads like this one for example.

>>2541544
Honestly any thread spouting Hancock-tier garbage like this one can't be that good.

Jesus Christ rising from the dead

>>2538891
Actually you should thank the Empire of Japan, the Empire of China, Shanghai-Czech, and the Soong family.