I've done many episodes talking about the First World War and I've done many

episodes talking about the Second World War. However, despite the names we've

given them, they weren't the only World Wars. There was another global war that

occurred well before the 20th century wars and this

war actually saw conflicts on five different continents.

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Before we get into what global conflict predated the world wars, we should talk about where the term

world war came from the term was first used generically in the 19th century.

The Oxford English dictionary claims that the first use of the phrase in English came from a Scottish newspaper called

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