WORLDQUARTZ
20 conflicts that shaped the modern world — and that most Americans missed
The article highlights 20 conflicts, including the Taiping Rebellion with more casualties than World War I and the Thirty Years' War that transformed Europe, which significantly shaped the modern world but are largely absent from American education.
Related Signal
Adjacent reporting
- The War Room newsletter: The war that shaped modern Iran
- Lessons from the Iran war
- 25 turning points in World War II most people don't know
- Trump’s failure to maintain ceasefires is part of the new world disorder – and ordinary people pay the price | Simon Tisdall
- 21 figures who changed history but are rarely taught in school
- Foreign Policy article calls Iran war a bigger defeat than Vietnam