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Originally Posted by Astromancer
Given several 18th-century wars were fought on more continents than the 20th-century world wars. so they have a point.
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I’m sure one could split hairs on definitions until the cows came home, but I think that most sensible definitions of “world war” would end up calling the Seven Years War the first. Dragged in the Mughals and the Iroquois...
(And yeah, I guess you could even say it was fought on more continents than WWII, so long as “being firebombed” doesn’t count as fighting...)