Weapons+Development

=The Affect of War on Human Culture= First we will start with a short history of war and human conflict. [|History of war (in brief)] War as we know it did not come about until the late 1930s. Then, in 1939, people where shocked by the brutal pace of German advances. The Germans had just invented blitzkrieg, or lightning war. These advances where brutal and deadly. However, the casualty rate for both sides was much lower than in was happening in earlier centuries. As technology of war got more advanced, casualty percents dropped. For example, in the American Civil war, there where 25% casualties for the losing side. Compare this to world war two, in which the loser had only 3-5% casualty rates. The is mostly due to the massive numbers of troops deployed in modern warfare. When ancient commanders would have only as much as 200,000 men, modern armies can muster millions of people to fight for their cause.

Affect of War on the Economy
War has a major affect on the economy's of the participating nations. It forces them to direct resources away form civil projects and into the building of tanks and planes and guns. This was not always so. In ancient times, nations went to war for land, slaves, and resources. This was very profitable. It was not uncommon to take hundreds of thousands of slaves over the course of a campaign. Also, wars where waged much more often than now, with countries waring for hundreds of years at a time.