10 Most Important Events Of Human History

defeat of the Japanese by Korean Admiral Yi-Soon-Shin in the late 1590s (can't remember the exact date). If Japan won, all of Asia today would be under complete Japanese control. If that happened, Asia today would not be called Asia but "Japan." Imagine that.
 
Manhattan project and the development of nuclear weapons. Changed international politics, war stretagies, and daily lives of everone in the world, especially in U.S. and Russia.
 
1. The invention of writing.
2. The Aryan invasions.
3. The Persian War
4. The life of Socrates
5. The life of Alexander the Great.
6. The ascent of Christianity
7. The fall of Rome
8. The life of Muhammad.
9. The signing of the Magna Carta.
10. The discovery of the New World by Columbus.
 
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1. The invention of fire. (A future without fire would have been inpossible)
2. The disapearing of Neantherthales (imagen if there were more then 1
sentient species)
3. Agriculture (there wouldn't be any cities without it)
4. Taming of pets caddle horses (Lots of work used to be done by tamed animals)
5. Mathematica (Man started mapping the skies calenders where made... etc)
6. Religion (possible the first form of law)
7. Slavery (the ability for a group of people to do almost nothing has
giving birth to many arts, like philosophy)
8. News papers (the interests of the world.)
9. Automatics (steam/oil engines)
10. Space travel
 
Prince_James said:
1. The invention of writing.
2. The Aryan invasions.
3. The Persian War
4. The life of Socrates
5. The life of Alexander the Great.
6. The ascent of Christianity
7. The fall of Rome
8. The life of Muhammad.
9. The signing of the Magna Carta.
10. The discovery of the New World by Columbus.
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The aryan invasion isn't that important, persian war is a bit more paramount since it decided the fate of partitioning the turks and europe. Big fan of socrate but no way is he on this list. Alexander was a great man but does not deserve this list either. Recently saw the movie "apocalypto", the only thing columbus did was arriving just in time to prevent a native from being beheaded, life will move on without America.
 
swivel said:
(Ignoring the 5,000 BCE limit)

Upright walking.
Acquisition of language.
Farming.
Job specialization.
Animal husbandry (especially the ox and horse).
Metallurgy.
Private ownership.
Internal combustion engine.
Democracy.
Transistor.
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You forgot to add television. TV is the single most important invention as far as i am concerned, its very influencial and informative. The internet is sort of following the same paradigm. In fact TV fosters two things on that list; language and democracy.
 
PsychoticEpisode said:
1. ancestors of man surviving the extinction of the dinosaur
2. the wheel
3. toolmaking
4. killing our food without physically touching it
5. Some of our ancestors getting out of Africa
6. discovering the pleasures of sex
7. questioning our place in the universe
8. discovery of contraception
9. reaping the spoils of war
10. building things that go boom
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You are in interesting fellow with perculiar assessments
 
Athena:
...from the rise of civilazation to present.
What do you think?
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Good deal. We have these new fandangled computers, we've got some cars to help us get around without the need to have access to grass and water to feed the horses. We're getting pretty advanced these days, and I find it all extremely exciting!
 
Chatha:

The Aryan invasions directly impacted languages spoken by over 2 billion people and the people they descended from.

The Persian War decided the fate of Europe and Asia.

Alexander the Great basically changed the shape of Greece, the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.

Socrates -founded philosophy-, basically.

And Columbus opened the way for European inhabitation of the Americas.
 
paper
combustible compounds like gun powder
wheel
vision correction devices
pencillin and similar drugs (although it may seem ironic in the future)

ps i didnt think hard on this one.
 
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falcon22 said:
defeat of the Japanese by Korean Admiral Yi-Soon-Shin in the late 1590s (can't remember the exact date). If Japan won, all of Asia today would be under complete Japanese control. If that happened, Asia today would not be called Asia but "Japan." Imagine that.
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How about US democratizing Japan & Korea?
 
death of genghis khan
bombing of hiroshima
vietnam war
silk road
constantine and the spread of christianity
the fall of communism
neo-confucian korea and china 12th century, stulted military growth.

have to add later aligator
 
1. Formation of the Milky Way Galaxy
2. Earth's progress to having an atmosphere that can sustain life
3. The evolution of organisms to the formation of homo sapiens
5. The ability to communicate using language
6. The life of Archimedes
7. The life of Isaac Newton
8. The discovery of petroleum
9. The discovery of nuclear energy
10. The partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.
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G.F. had a point... I should have written something like "space travel" for a more significant recent event.

I may be breaking a commandment, but there is no Prince to reprimand me. Besides, this is a good topic.
 
I don't know about number event but the polish russian war of the 1920 has to be up there because it prevent comunism from gaining a foot hold in europe (yes poland was behind the iron curtain domated by the ussr but that happened becuase the us and uk decieded to turn their backs on their ally poland and most countries did what ever theyt could to lessen solviet control and get out from behind the iron curtain) oh and for another big one the invention of the pointy stick
 
Well there are some interesting messages here. However, the single most important event was ......Believe it or not Cooking!
1.9 million years ago man discovered cooking increased the supply of calories. Our brains got bigger and the rest really is just history.
 
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