{"id":7162,"date":"2014-09-10T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T05:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2014-09-10T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T05:11:11","slug":"friends-looking-for-data-on-deaths-under-nation-states-compared-to-casualties-under-the-messy-city-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/friends-looking-for-data-on-deaths-under-nation-states-compared-to-casualties-under-the-messy-city-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends, looking for data on deaths under nation-states compared to casualties under the &#8220;messy&#8221; city-state &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Friends, looking for data on deaths under nation-states compared to casualties under the &#8220;messy&#8221; city-state and statelings regime. Historians tell me that &#8220;there were a lot wars&#8221; but these wars weren&#8217;t cumulatively so murderous. Take Italy: 650,000 people died in the 1rst war; before that I can&#8217;t find anything worse than 16,000 in the 16th century. I don&#8217;t know how the 30 Y war affected Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Any help with data would be welcome. The concern is city-states in 18th C Europe (and 17th)&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"fbPhotoImage\" class=\"fbPhotoImage img\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpa1\/v\/t1.0-9\/s720x720\/10676137_10152466858703375_7315469347976072414_n.png?oh=ac2a8ef0bb04198e1509d270900fc629&amp;oe=54CF0BE4&amp;__gda__=1419544091_b2c2f409a58386e51c39f1ffe87e5cdb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/13012333374\/photos\/a.10150109720973375.279515.13012333374\/10152466858703375\/?type=1\">Timeline Photos &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, looking for data on deaths under nation-states compared to casualties under the &#8220;messy&#8221; city-state and statelings regime. Historians tell me that &#8220;there were a lot wars&#8221; but these wars weren&#8217;t cumulatively so murderous. Take Italy: 650,000 people died in the 1rst war; before that I can&#8217;t find anything worse than 16,000 in the 16th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7164,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}