The Cell

Brisieis, I love your Avatar pic , It's done by Luis Royo, he is prity much my favouret Artist of ALL TIME... I would recognise his works anywhere...

Anyhow, getting back to the point, I can defiantly agree with what you are saying here. But, of course I stand to be corrected here, I would believe that Europe's "History of Wars" would be much more elaborate than any other place across the world, because it was recorded in writing, Even if this writing was indirect at times. Where as other Continents my have indeed been involved in endless conflicts but there is no records of these conflicts...

The Cell

Actually no... Well at least Precolonial Africa.

bartieboy

Well then I gues the horrific title goes to Europe after all.

The Cell

I don't think so either , Like I said in my previous post, Europe recorded their wars in some form or another, Thus we know about most of these war, if not all. Where as few other places did the same, thus we will never know of the wars they fought...

Mosquito

The answer is simple. Because in Europe are Germans and Russians and most of time they spent attacking other people and trying to steal their land.

WeisSaul

Unlike the rest of the world, Europe (particularly northern Europe) has no defining geographic features that provide for a truly defensible border.

From France to Russia, north of the Carpathians and Alps, there are no major rivers, canyons, mountains, or other features that provide defensible borders. The closest thing to a defining feature is the Rhine, but that isn't anyone's border right now.

Europe's many rivers, peninsulas, and the mountains that form smaller pockets across the continent have created many ethnic groups that often were not contiguous.

Plus with so little land for so many people, people fought over getting whatever they could. That was the reason west Europe went off colony hunting; the European needed more land. That's also why there are such large white societies in the Northern America, the Southern cone, the cape of good hope, Australia, and New Zealand: there wasn't enough room to grow and thrive back home. If the Cape Colony of South Africa had never been federated into South Africa, it would today be seen as being as White and Anglospheric as the UK, US, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand. Odds are, if the age of empires lasted another century, large swathes of Africa in place like Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Somalia, Namibia and Kenya would be white majority, just because they were already slated to become settlement colonies and there was no shortage of people in Europe who wanted to leave and get a breath of fresh air.

Big Stick

Weissaul you beat me to it. Multi-islands, Multi-peninsula's and the Alps make people who live within miles of each other foreigners to one another. Also the grassland highway that runs from Mongolia all the way to about Hungary means Europe is accessible to Cavalries from the expanse of Asia.

KGB

Well, quite understandable Polish position But it is not only that...

Don Durito

I also belief it has much to do with eurocentrism. Here in Europe, most attention is given to European and western wars. Only very little attention the numerous dynastic wars and twists in China, India and the Middle East.

Lucius

If one looks at the map of Europe, he will see that it is a large peninsula jutting off from the Eurasian land-mass. But it is not just a peninsula - it is a peninsula made up of many peninsulas, some larger, some smaller. There are also many islands off the coasts, some larger, some smaller.

So, the geography of Europe fostered the emergence of "many active rivals."

Apparently a person has a certain amount of understanding, sympathy, trust, etc, available to deploy, and no more than that. That generally is used up on those who live in his vicinity, I guess.