Has there ever been a period of world peace?

During former times, for many decades or even longer periods of time there were less wars between neighboring countries or rivaling empires. But this doesn't mean that .... 6,ooo years ago the world was at peace, humans engaged in no long term conflicts, had few weapons and got along fine. Then something happened. read more

Anyways, “world peace” I assume, is a term that refers to peace all over the world, this never happened. In modern times, world peace would mean to end the conflicts between large countries such as USA, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Koreas, The Arab world etc. read more

You have raise an interesting question :) Well, throughout history there have been many minor or major wars, civil unrest and government corruption, so there was never truly a period of 'universal world peace'. read more

Our closest relatives engage in war suggesting that war is part of our nature. I doubt there has ever been a period of complete peace, but it depends on how one defines war. Also I think it would be impossible to prove that there were no wars, anywhere for the simple fact that many cultures did not record their wars. read more