The twentieth century saw two world wars and several genocides. Yet, John Green says, the twentieth century was “by many measures, the least violent century ever.” What claim best supports this?
Choose 1 answer:
(Choice A)
A
There was more social and economic equality, less state-sponsored oppression, and more people living under peaceful regimes than ever before.
(Choice B)
B
Totalitarian regimes successfully repressed resistance in this century, resulting in more stable societies overall.
(Choice C)
C
Historians measure violence by rather by the amount of time spent fighting, rather than death tolls, and that century had less years of mass conflict than ever before.
(Choice D)
D
Most of the conflicts of that century, however deadly and destructive, were in the pursuit of peace, and therefore not technically violent.