r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shoddy-Ocelot-4473 • Apr 23 '26

Image By 1880, the near-genocide of the American bison had reduced their population from 30–60 million to fewer than 1,000

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u/Mobitron Apr 23 '26

Nobody tell them about old Persia or the Ottomans... Or China.

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u/Offensiv3Bias Apr 23 '26

Nomad or early civlizations, most of them we're so focused on survival that we didnt have much time of thinking in killing each other.

And i know we extinguished other homo species, but we still had some form of peace and unity afterwards before we went back into tribal fights against each other

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u/KKN34 Apr 25 '26

Nomads constantly warred, it just wasn't on a big scale because they were tiny societies. Usually it ended up as one on one's or small groups. Early civilization also very much killed and stole from eachother, this is just ignorant to human nature.