By your own understanding what is the first ever war in human history?

Question

without looking it up this minute,what do you THINK is the first war ever waged on Earth between between two opposing nations?

My 7 year old nephew kinda stumped me with this question earlier..haha..He wanted to know for a fact when it was and who by,but i just want to get an idea of what people think it is...wether they be right or wrong isnt that important.

Also if any history buffs can tell me for FACT what it was,im in the process of scouring through google to find the answer,but im sure its probably something thats disputed,even to just give me some helpful links would be appreciated.Also it would be nice to give my at times scarily inquisitive nephew an answer!

Answer 1

Off the top, without looking it up. Cain slew able, two opposing sides, there were only one on each side but, it was a war, wasn't it.

         Or,  Aristotle's "Iliad" the wars between Troy an Sparta. Lasted 25 years.

Answer 2

This question has two possible answers. One based on faith, the other based on scholarly thought. In faith it depends on the faith. For Christians, it would be between heaven and h**l, or perhaps, Cain and Abel. But every religion seems to have it's own story.

Scholarly speaking we can't know... It has been well established that even before the written word, man was fighting against his neighbor. So I think that this question cannot have an answer.

Answer 3

I think there must be records of war in the very early civilisations - Chinese, Egyptians or perhaps the Sumerians (maybe a couple of thousand years before Homer's Iliad) but you'd have to do a bit of research to find out for sure.

Edit: I found this for you:-

The almost constant wars among the Sumerian city-states for 2000 years helped to develop the military technology and techniques of Sumer to a high level. The first war recorded was between Lagash and Umma in ca. 2525 BC on a stele called the Stele of Vultures. It shows the king of Lagash leading a Sumerian army consisting mostly of infantry. The infantrymen carried spears, wore copper helmets and carried leather or wicker shields. The spearmen are shown arranged in what resembles the phalanx formation, which requires training and discipline; this implies that the Sumerians may have made use of professional soldiers.

At the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerians#M...

Answer 4

I will have to go with Michael P's answer; the first ever war, was fought between the Sumerians, the founders of civilization, and roaming Semitic tribes that later became the Babylonians.  Yes; the world's very first war, was fought in Iraq.  Most historians and academics would agree with this, if "war" is understood to be large scale, having organized armies, etc.

I would have to say the conquest of Sumeria by the ancestors of the Babylonians; that is the world's very first war.

Answer 5

Definately the Sumerians, they're really the most ancient society we still have fragmentary records of.  They were at their peak while the Egyptians were still wandering around the desert.

Answer 6

the earliest that i can think of would either be the israelites breaking free of egyption rule under moses, or as cowboydoc said, the trojan war, which ever was earliest (i dont really know the old testament well).  though to correct what was already said, it was homer who wrote the iliad, not aristotle.