10 Most Important Events Of Human History

Discussion in 'History' started by Athena, Sep 8, 2005.

  1. fuzzywuz Registered Senior Member

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    guess I'd hafta say it was the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
    did a job on Rome. Gave rise to Western Civ. set the standard for human behavior, which nowadays is pretty widespread all over the world. that's my choice for historical event
     
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  3. mountainhare Banned Banned

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    I can't think of ten, however, off the top of my head.

    1. When humans learnt how to farm their food.

    2. When Charles Martel stomped the Moors at the Battle of Tours.

    3. Christopher C. discovering America.

    4. Invention of the radio.

    5. Discovery of germs by Louis Pasteur.
     
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  5. Xylene Valued Senior Member

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    Animal and plant domestications happened too early for your timeframe, I'm thinking. So, let's see...

    1) Weaving
    2) Pottery
    3) Wheeled transport
    4) Ships, boats
    5) Metallurgy (probably way back)
    6) bows and arrows
    7) tents (mobile shelter)
    8) saddles, stirrups
    9) plowshares
    10) weaponry and fortifications
     
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  7. Sci2000luka Registered Member

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    This what I think, considering that civilization began when people settled into communities, for civilized means settled and cultured:

    1. Advent of Agriculture (c. 10,000 BC- Egypt)
    2. The drive to settlement and urbanization (c.10,000BC- All around)
    3. The advent of animal husbandry (c.10,000-8,000 BC- All around)
    4. Hippocratean advances in medicine (c. 400 BC- Greece)
    5. Invention of writing (c. 4,000 BC- Mesopotamia, China, Americas)
    6. Advent of the Copernician view of Earth (mid-1600's- Poland)
    7. Standardization of scientific deduction (scientific method)-(1640- England)
    8. The steam engine and the onset of industrialization (c. 1750- England)
    9. Mechanized transportation (train, car etc.) (1750- Germany, England)
    10. Invention of the digital computer and later, internet (1940,1970 respectively- US)

    Well, this is just what I think. For most practicality I have avoided the subject of religion. Hope this helps in your pursuits of reason
     
  8. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    Wow. You are misinformed.

    CC didn't "discover" America, on purpose or accident. He was looking for India. He exploited the natives of Bahamas (I think that's it) and is responsible for mass genocide of those natives, which he thought were Indians.

    20,000 years ago some people migrated to North America via a land bridge between Asia and NA.

    Maybe 1,000 years some Viking guy found NA, and a few years ago they found a map of this, which maps northern Canada.
     
  9. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    well, he discovered it for the purpose of economic exploitation...

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    he was a bumbling fool that has been deified by western civilization. anyone can blindly sail ships across water, HOPING to find something on the other side.
     
  10. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    I wish I was told what CC really did when I learned about him. We treated him like a deity where I went to school. We watched videos that made him look like a good guy.

    You could probably do the same thing with Hitler

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    Yea, didn't CC look for a better route to India for make trade easier and cheaper? Perhaps I need to re-read the first chapter of "A People's History of the United States."
     
  11. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    my list (no particular order)
    1. fire
    2. ability to cast metal
    3. language
    4. printing press
    5. wheel
    6. math
    7. steam engine
    8. transistor
    9. telephone
    10. medicine
     
  12. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    out of curiousity i googled '10 greatest inventions' and here is what encarta has to say:
    1. The Mechanical Clock.
    2. The Toilet
    3. The Printing Press.
    4. Immunization and Antibiotics.
    5. The Telephone.
    6. The Electrical Grid.
    7. The Automobile.
    8. The Television.
    9. The Computer.
    10. Something New. So many seminal new inventions are coming into their own right now that one of them surely belongs on this list, but which one? The Internet represents the emergence of a global brain, separate from all the human cells contributing to it. Birth control will ultimately transform the role women play in society and history--and any transformation in who women are will force a transformation in men, too. Genetic engineering can potentially complete the metamorphosis of people into products. There's no telling what such an objectification of ourselves will do to us. And what about virtual reality? It's bidding to dissolve the age-old distinction between what is real and what is imaginary. I can't imagine how that will change our lives--no, really, I can't. Imagine.
    http://encarta.msn.com/column_10greatestinventions_tamimhome/The_10_Greatest_Inventions.html
     
  13. Dr Hannibal Lecter Gentleman and Cannibal. Registered Senior Member

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    Some here apparently don't quite grasp, poor dears, the meanings of the words 'events' and 'history'. And some of them vote, so don't, of course, expect to find 'the invention of democracy' on my list, which appears below in no particular order:

    1) The birth of Mohamet.
    2) The birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
    3) The birth of Confucius.
    4) The birth of Siddhartha Gautama.
    5) The birth of Copernicus.
    6) The birth of Bach.
    7) The birth of Aristotle.
    8) The birth of Lenin.
    9) The birth of Darwin.
    10) The birth of Einstein.
     
  14. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    i would call an invention or discovery an event. wouldn't you?
     
  15. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Music. Without that I wouldn't want to be alive.
     
  16. terryoh Registered Senior Member

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    I choose to concentrate on military events. In no specific order (i.e. the first ones that come to mind):

    1. The Battle of Tours. Had Charles Martel and the Franks (French) not defeated the invading Arab armies in this battle, Europe as we know it, Christiandom, and maybe even the colonization of South and North America would've been VASTLY different. The one world religion might even be Islam today.

    2. The Battle of Hastings. Feudalism was introduced to England, as was the French language, which shaped our modern English language.

    3. The Battle of Teutoberg Forest. Had the 3 (or 4?) Roman legions defeated the Germanic armies a few years after the Birth of Christ, ALL of Europe might've been Romanized and events such as the Anglo-Saxons invading England and Franks settling in France might not have happened.

    4. Battle of Arras. Had the British not briefly checked the German army, which had advanced through Holland, Belgium, and Northern France, all of the 338,000 that were evacuated from Dunkirk might've been killed or captured, and may have swayed the outcome of Operation Sealion or even initiated the surrender of Britain to Hitler.

    5. Battle of Midway Islands. Enough can't be said about this battle. If the Japanese had won, the entire Pacific Carrier fleet of the Americans might've been wiped out. Although being the arsenal of democracy, not even time would've been bought to halt Japan from taking over Hawaii and it's vast oil deposits. Japanese carriers would then have had free reign to bomb American coastal cities. Who knows how the Americans would've taken it if their industries were being pummelled?

    6. Battle of Stalingrad. Had the Germans won this battle, the oil and grain supplies on the Ukraine would've been enough to continually fuel the German army. The Soviets might've collapsed as these German armies might've swung northwards to flank the remaing Soviet divisions. With the USSR gone, it would've been only the British Empire and the USA to go at it with the Germans and Japanese. And before people start bragging that Hitler STILL would've lost, we really don't know. Just so everyone knows, the BEST of Hitler's equipment and armies went to the Eastern front, NOT the Western Front against the Americans. The fact that the British, Americans, and Canadians struggled against Hitler's "B-level" armies is a testiment to how successful the Germans were against the best of America, Britain, and Canada. Without the USSR sapping up the resources of Hitler's "A-level" armies, those "A-level" armies combined with "B-level" armies could've (although not definitely) defeated the Americans, British, and Canadians.

    I'll think of more, but I have to go to bed now.
     
  17. Hapsburg Hellenistic polytheist Valued Senior Member

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    You do realize that is physically impossible, right?
    That existed some 600 years or more before this "jesus" fella supposedly existed.
    Actually, most societies in the west are based on Anglo-Saxon style of common law, and most Western, and many African and Eastern governments are based on the Roman Republican form of government.

    Fine, he "rediscovered" it. Close enough. The fact is, his voyages layed the foundation for the Age of Discovery, and the colonial empires of the great nations.

    Looking for a new route to India, Oceania, or China, all of which were key to the spice and silk trades, but ended up in the Caribbean, and thought it was the East Indies/Oceania, which is why we still call the islands the "West Indies".

    Uh, number 2 didn't even happen.

    Anyway, my no.1 would've been "discovery of how to use fire".
     
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  18. Roman Banned Banned

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    If it happened in the Middle East, Europe, or the Americas post-Conquista, then it was important.

    Anything that happened anywhere else doesn't matter.
     
  19. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    how come no one thought the internet as a significant event?
     
  20. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    because the internet doesn't exist
    it is a protocol that allows computers to talk to one another.

    if you think about it there is no direct connection between your computer and mine.
     
  21. Roman Banned Banned

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    What about when you talk to someone?

    There's no direct connection (whatever the fuck that means) between someone talking and someone listening.
     
  22. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    the protocol was designed in such a way that the means of communication was considered unreliable.
    which explains the use of packets and the fact that one packet might reach you from a local server and the next from a server 2000 miles away
     
  23. My Sexy Blue Feet Out sunbaking, leave a msg... Registered Senior Member

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    I think Internet, or maybe phonelines are definetly one of the greatest. It has changed the world for ever, and has joined up people from all around the globe. I know it's only recent, but i think it is still important.
    Music.
    Fire.
    Speech.(language)
    Electricity
     

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