哪個國家經歷過人類歷史上最多的戰爭？

原問題：Which country has experienced the most wars in human history?

譯者註：上圖為作者。邏輯自洽，言之有理。

首先，我認為我們需要圍繞國家的概念做一點分析，因為國家實體經常在戰爭中發生變化，甚至有時候作為一個概念，它是非常年輕的。

First of all, I think we need to go around the concept of a country for a bit, because such national entities often change during wars and even as a concept it is very young.

由於世界上很少有地方沒有受到衝突的影響，我們可以假設大多數戰爭發生在人類定居時間最長的地方。

Since very few places in the world have not been touched by conflict, we can assume most wars have taken place where humans have lived the longest.

智人，第一批現代人類，大約25萬到20萬年前在非洲進化，可能在10萬到7萬年前遷移到其他地區。

Homo Sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved about 200 000 or 250 000 years ago in Africa and began to move elsewhere maybe 70 000 to 100 000 years ago.

在我看來，我們不能簡單地回答是非洲——因為我們那時候還遠遠沒有成立一個國家。

We can』t simply answer Africa - in my opinion - because we are still a bit far from definition of a country.

第一批文明主要出現在河谷附近，由於農業和交通更加便利。這樣的文明是兩河流域、印度河和黃河。我們現在來談論不到1萬年前的新石器時代。

The first civilizations appeared around major river valleys, due to easier farming and transportation. Such civilizations were the Mesopotamian, Indus and Yellow river. We are now talking about Neolithic period, less than 10 000 years ago.

顯然，在真正的文明之前有衝突，但它們很小，也沒有組織。小型團體之間的小規模衝突幾乎不能稱為國家間的戰爭。

Obviously there had been conflicts before real civilizations, but they were much smaller and unorganized. Skirmishes between small farming communities can hardly be called wars between countries.

文明伴隨著城市和國家，意味著在單一政治結構下有組織的團體。當今的國家也是這樣的。

With civilizations came cities and states, meaning organized communities under single political structures. A present-day country is such a state too.

最後，在美索不達米亞，文字大約是公元前3100年發明的。文字使我們能夠維持更複雜的社會等級，並在更大的地區和人口中維持統一的政權。這導致了法律的編纂和更好的記錄。通過文字，我們終於可以談論現代意義上的宣戰。

Finally, in Mesopotamia, writing was invented around 3100 BC. Writing enabled us to maintain more complex social hierarchies and consolidate power over larger areas and populations. This led to codification of laws and better record-keeping. With written text we can finally talk about declaration of war in modern sense.

通過以上論據，我能肯定人類歷史上戰爭最多的地區是肥沃的新月地帶。敘利亞、伊拉克和該地區的許多其他國家至今仍然戰火紛飛。

With this information, my best estimate is that the area with most wars in human history, is the Fertile Crescent. Syria, Iraq and many other countries in the area are still unstable today.

儘管如此，許多非洲國家仍然被認為同樣被戰爭蹂躪。許多西方國家看起來很安全，就像英國，儘管他們捲入了100多次戰爭。

Still, many African countries can be considered equally torn by war. Also many western countries might look nice and safe, like Britain, even though they have been involved in more than 100 wars.