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Ogurisama posted...

Who was the first person to ever die due to war was?

It would depend on how you define "war", but it would have been someone post-Agricultural Revolution. Because you had to establish the concept of property and wealth before you can have political structures and specialized workers, and you need both of those concepts before you can really establish anything resembling a military.

If you define war as just soldiers fighting other people, you probably get your first victim shortly after agriculture starts, as the first settled tribes start using force against their unmilitarized neighbors (but that's more just raids). But if you define war as being combat between two military forces, you might be looking towards Mesopotamia around the time of the Sumerians.