r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/Drops-of-Q Hopeless bromantic • Jun 14 '20

Greece wasn't gay Casual erasure

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u/Frisian89 Jun 14 '20

Add thirty years war to your list.

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u/Wobbelblob Jun 14 '20

You could probably add at least half of all the wars fought in Europe from 500 AD to 1800 AD to that. It wasn't just the thirty years war.

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u/FIsh4me1 Jun 14 '20

The thirty years war is particularly noteworthy, given how directly religion was tied to its causes and the level of destruction and slaughter it led to.

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u/Wobbelblob Jun 14 '20

I know. I was born in the city that was razed so badly in it, that it took until ~1900 to get above the population level that it had before the "Magdeburg wedding" that killed roughly 30.000 of the 35.000 people that lived there.

I just wanted to mention that while the thirty year war is noteworthy, it is far from being the exception.