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France and Mexico fought a war over pastries.

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"19th-century Dutch letterpress print of various treats. The text at the top entices a peckish viewer: “Of many pastries and delicacies / This print is provided, whatever your choice. / So dear youth consider it always for your amusement, / And choose from it everything that is to your taste”." - from the Public Domain Image Archive

Lázaro Cárdenas was president of Mexico from 1934-1940. History education in the U.S. pays far more attention to Europe than to Mexico and Canada, but in short: for his nationalization of the petroleum industry alone, he's one of the most important figures in North America of the past century.

Anyway. Point is he joined the Mexican Revolution at age 15 and first got promoted for having excellent penmanship!

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...the 16th century.

How can this still/ever be resolved?

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...in particular in the present-day "developed" world.

And yet another thought:

Neither the biggest death bubble (WWII) im human history, nor any of the pandemics of the 20th and 21st century seems to have been able to cause a similar small "Ice Age" as did #TheGreatDying in...

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...we see from this study is 👉the scale of what’s required [to battle anthropogenic #ClimateChange], because #theGreatDying resulted in an area the size of France being reforested👈 and that gave us only a few parts per million."

Picture this:

"Indigenous...

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...the 1500s cannot be balanced until large-scale vegetation regeneration in the Americas is included. 👉#TheGreatDying of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas resulted in a human-driven global impact on the Earth system👈 in the two centuries prior to the Industrial Revolution.”

And what...

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...the #LittleIceAge?👈
And was that a result of “natural forces” or because of the “large-scale #depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and secondary succession...”?!?

The authors say their study shows that the “global carbon budget of...

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...approximately 90% of the population of the Americas that would be at least 10% of the global population in 1500 (430-500 m 6))--👉that would be the relatively biggest extinction-level event of humanity in historic times!👈

Mind-blowing?
Maybe (still) not...

6)
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en.m.wikipedia.orgEstimates of historical world population - Wikipedia
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...👉if #TheGreatDying as part of the European conquest of the Americas were to be counted as but ONE conflict, the c. 54m casualties of the indigenous population would already be the 2nd biggest death bubble of humanity ever.👈

With...

5)
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en.m.wikipedia.orgWorld War I casualties - Wikipedia
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...fatalities (military + civilian fatalities).

The biggest circle, as you had expected, was #WWII:

"An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or 👉about 3% of the estimated global population👈 of 2.3 billion in 1940." 4) (#WWI 15-20m) 5)

👉So,...

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... a rounding imprecision.
In other words, seen (only statistically,) the wartime deaths were, in this sense, "almost negligible."
Over time, when the original awe and "godliness" of the conquistadores had worn off, the 50-60 m people would have simply overrun the...

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