The Devastation of the Three Kingdoms War

Most people today have never even heard of it. We study Rome. We study Greece.

But the Three Kingdoms War? One of history's deadliest conflicts. Forgotten.

The Three Kingdoms War killed more people than World War One. Between 184 and

280 AD, China tore itself apart so violently that entire provinces became ghost lands.

The Three Kingdoms period in China was indeed a devastating era of conflict, disease,

and famine, leading to massive depopulation, with census data showing China's

population dropping from around 50 million to 16 million, a loss often cited as 30-40 million

deaths, though estimates vary and some historians attribute much of this to state collapse