Would humans be more advanced if there were never any wars?

I was asking this to a friend yesterday and I theorized that we would at least be 2000 years more advanced than we currently are. Think of all the time we could spend focusing on environmental problems, diseases, famine and other worldly dilemmas or discoveries if we had never had one war through all of human history. How do you think the world would be?Would humans be more advanced if there were never any wars?Possibly, but you must remember that as a result of countless wars and international strife, some countries became the dominant power. For example, before the Barbary Wars, no one would've thought that the United States would become the world's leader in just about everything. If the Revolutionary War never happened, we would be without 75% of our current knowledge, and we owe this to the Colonists who won the war- they created the United States. Now let's look into ancient times. The Roman Empire-Conquests all over the world. Those are wars. If they never happened, if the Roman Empire never existed, do you think we would have the knowledge we do now? You must remember that the Renaissance marked the end of the Dark Ages, and that the Dark Ages were the period between the fall of the Romans and the period before the Renaissance. The Renaissance, as a direct result of the Roman Empire, in that Renaissance humanists strived to return to the classical age of Greco-Roman times, gave rise to numerous other international movements such as the Religious Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Sexual Revolution, Industrial Revolution, modern medicine, and the Atomic Bomb. Yes, you may say that as the world is growing more powerful and wealthy, the world is becoming less civilized. But would any of the good things in this world be possible without the wars, battles, genocides or empires that caused the rise of nations, that today are the very definition of Modern Civilization?Would humans be more advanced if there were never any wars?
Given how many inventions and techniques also used in peace time were first developed during war time, I would think not.



Plus, the world would be even more overpopulated without the occasional war.Would humans be more advanced if there were never any wars?I don't know about that. The thing is, war is the force that has spurred on many scientific discoveries. Guns, catapaults, nuclear use (the Manhattan Prjoect). Even going into space was the product of the Space Race between the Soviets and the US--and more too.Would humans be more advanced if there were never any wars?
Your friend is sorely mistaken and almost certainly a homosexual. War often drives innovation as necessity is the mother of invention. Things like satellite communication, gps, and radar have been developed by military scientists. Also, war is awesome. There are cool explosions and bloody guts everywhere. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not to be trusted. Report your friend to the authorities.Would humans be more advanced if there were never any wars?I agree with you, but also some technologies have been developed during or because of war ( not just nuclear warheads and 'weapons of mass destruction'). Medicine and communications also advanced hugely due to war. Sadly, we have learned a lot from wars. I'd like to live in a conflict - free world, though. It sounds nice.

Here's an example of technology developed during one war:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_鈥?/a>Would humans be more advanced if there were never any wars?
Wrong!

The most advances come DURING WARS. The pressure caused by wars makes people look to make inventions, improvements, increase productivity, industrialization, etc. Things move ahead faster when there are problems.

In any case, 'what if' is useless. There are wars, have always been wars, and probably always will be wars. It only takes one bad politician to make a war.Would humans be more advanced if there were never any wars?
No, in fact, in would be the opposite, because wars contribute to factories, which develop new things.