Which Country Has Provoked The Most War In History?

Countries seeking to aggressively expand their territories and build empires - particularly in Europe - have provoked the most wars. The Roman Empire was famous for its military efficiency and confident enough to provoke numerous wars, a necessary by product of its relentless empire building over hundreds of years. And once Romans had occupied a foreign territory, their mere presence was a provocation for uprisings and rebellions among the native peoples, several of which led to full-scale war. Ancient Greece is famous for its arts and learning but its ruler Alexander the Great, in a concentrated time period, conquered most of the known world via almost constant war, primarily against the Persian Empire. France in the early 1800s provoked a whole series of wars named after their militaristic general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Over just a decade, Napoleonic France fought almost every other European power in an aggressive bid to control most of western and central Europe. France had also been involved in all the wars comprising the Hundred Years' War, a 116 year middle ages conflict with England, though the English, with their constant claims to the French throne, could perhaps be seen as the principal provocateurs here. Germany as a country may not have provoked the most war in history - it was only a unified nation relatively recently, though its former independent state Prussia was pretty warlike in the 18th and19th centuries. But the blame for the two single biggest and most devastating wars in history has been laid at Germany's door and undoubtedly it, under Hitler, did provoke World War 2. World War 1 was more complex in its origin but the winners, at the Treaty of Versailles, made Germany accept most of the responsibility for provoking that conflict.

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