Biggest genocide by what metrics? Certainly not by percent, the genocides in the Caribbean take the grim prize there, and even the highest estimates of pre 1492 population of us and canada combined are lower than the number of soviet civilians alone that the nazis killed and not all of those people died and most of those who died did so from disease before the genocide even begun so it cant be by raw numbers. so im curious by what metric u evaluate it to be the biggest genocide? maybe by land area held while doing the genocide? but im pretty sure even then the tsar’s russia would win.
There were around 130 million indigenous Americans at the time of arrival according to the most recent estimates I’ve seen. It wasn’t only the Americans who committed genocide certainly, but in terms of scale, the genocide of the indigenous was definitively the most expansive in known history.
yes 130 million in the americas not in what is now the usa the most populated areas where in central america and the Andes. even high estimates for what is now the usa and canada are at around 8 million the highest dont go above 13 million which is around the number of soviet civilians the nazis killed and much lower that the total number of civilians the nazis killed. and going even further most of those people died from diseases. by the time the usa became a country there were only 700k indegenous people in what is now the the contiguous us i think its fair to say the usa is responsible for the genocides that happened even before that but point is in terms of raw numbers there is no comparison.
u say in terms of scale it was the most expansive but what scales are those.
The scale of over 120 million people dying… can you name another genocide in which more than 90% of the population was exterminated and in which over 100 million people died? A genocide doesn’t have to be committed by a single group. The Americans continuing (and expanding) the genocide started before them by the Spanish, British, French, etc, doesn’t make each of those separate genocides. It was one long historical process that lead to the depopulation of an entire continent.
