Huge wars that most people forgot or never heard of.

But what about the An Lushan Rebellion?[/quote:2qezifv8]

About 36 million.

Pretty much every war ever fought in Pre-Gunpowder Japan has been forgotten.

The Timurids are widely unknown.
The Crimean War.
2nd and 3rd Crusades
Boar War.
The Mongol (failed) Invasion of Japan.
The Philipino Uprising against America(after the Spanish American War)
Most Wars in the Middle East during the Middle Ages. Obviously not including the Crusades, etc.
The Fall of Byzantium
The Austrio-Prussian War.
The Libyan Uprising against Italy.
The African Front of WW1.

Not by me but it's been established that I love Japan and it's history.

They're certainly known by Medieval 2 players, I don't think they will forget them. >.>

Yeah, let me third that too. The statistics of that are massive. Honestly, I never heard of the An Lushan Rebellion until one of you guys mentioned it. 36 million people? God...

Other ones that come to my mind:
War of the Pacific (Chile, Bolivia, Peru)
French Intervention of Mexico
Second Northern War (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia, Sweden, Prussia, Denmark), known also as the Deluge. The Commonwealth lost almost 1/3 of its population.
Second Congo War (Congo, Uganda, Namibia, Rwanda, Burundi, other armed groups), a war that's still happening to this day, where something like 4-8 million died.
Hungarian-Romanian War, Romania snuffs out a communist regime in Budapest right after WWI.
Polish-Soviet War, a really nasty conflict that stopped the Bolshevik's from going into Europe, also after WWI
Irish Civil War, also after WWI.

Actually, come to think of it, there are a whole string of wars right after WWI that we don't talk or think much about

The Soviet- Finnish war is also forgotten.
Iraq-Iran war

Influenza epidemic in the early 1900's. Nature declares war on us, kills six-percent of the World's population, gets a small blurb in my US history book.....

I don't think the Eighty Years War would be very known. It wasn't very big either, although I guess after gaining independence the Dutch did become decently powerful.

What's more important is that the Eighty Years War weakened Spain significantly by investing so much effort to defeat the Dutch, IMO at the end of the Eighty Years War Spain had been weakened considerably and did not influence the rest of Europe afterwards.

Another war I can think of is the Great Northern War with King Charles XII of Sweden, it's pretty much what weakened Poland enough to be conquered by Russia, Prussia and Austria and it also marks the end of the Swedish Empire.

Pelopennesian wars, franco-prussian war, korean war, gulf war.

Thirty years war I just thought of.

Anything with the ottomans.

Fall of the Byzantine empire.

From what I know, the only one with real relevance were the, Gempei War, Onin War and the Sengoku Jidai.

Oh what about the Opium wars.

This, you crazy motherfuckers. The black death got half a page in my history book, too. It's stupid.

Sino-Japanese Wars?

The black death didn't even get mention in mine.

I spent a couple of days learning some convoluted idea that it led to the renaissance... :roll:

I spent a couple of days learning some convoluted idea that it led to the renaissance... :roll:[/quote:ftady7v9]

Probably because it did.

I didn't even learn about the Renaissance, i had to give a lecture on how the fall of the byzantine empire led to the Renaissance.