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- amabaie, on 05/25/2009, -0/+62Not the discovery of electricity, on which our entire lifestyle is now based?
- aznhomig, on 05/26/2009, -2/+43What a crappy list.
- enkideridu, on 05/26/2009, -0/+3810 The Invention of Gunpowder
09 Daily Life in the Agora (academic conversations in greek marketplaces)
08 The Council of Nicea (the first worldwide gathering of the Church)
07 The Black Death
06 Discovery of Sugar (The engine of slave trade)
05 The Declaration of Independence
04 A Monk and His Peas (discovery of heredity)
03 A Trip to the Galapagos (Chales Darwin develops natural selection)
02 12 Seconds in the Air (Wright Brothers fly over Kitty Hawk, NC)
01 Test-Tube Babies (first "test tube" baby born using in-vitro fertilization)
can't believe test-tube babies took #1 - Hrodrik, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2110 events that changed history... That is so ***** vague. Everything changes history. When Alois Hitler met Clara it also changed history.
- inactive, on 05/26/2009, -3/+18The biggest "event" that will change our history is obviously the internet or complete communication without Ideological intervention
Every day, global communication(the Internet) awakens people to the lies, mistruths and propaganda of the U.S. corporate owned corrupt media and the lies of the Church. It's just a matter of time.
The fallacy of the institution of their beliefs and propaganda are revealed as lies and the never ending enslavement to fear the U.S. media and the Church subjects on the Human mind.
The Church and the U.S. Media try to dismiss the Internet as "Leftist Looney" or "Evil".
People are begining to wake up to this and it will be the biggest change in our history - kzer, on 05/26/2009, -0/+14from the ten, only the Black Death was not caused by humans
- MrSkills, on 05/26/2009, -0/+14What about..
The ratification of Magna Carta - the beginning of all constitutional law in the western world?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - which led to the bloodiest war in all history and, by extension, the second world war, the holocaust, and just about the entire course of history since then?
Those are just two off the top of my head. The reality is that there are probably many hundreds of events of truly world-shaping importance that could be picked (and that's not even counting the 'butterfly effect'). Thankfully, they are not claiming that this is "the top 10", but the choice is still pretty arbitrary. - giveer, on 05/26/2009, -0/+12More than that, I'm shocked that the inventing of the printing press wasn't on there. At the the turn of the millennium, that was considered the most important moment of the last 1000 years.
- felman87, on 05/26/2009, -0/+9Microchip?
- MissCellania, on 05/26/2009, -0/+9Looks like it's in chronological order, not ranked. Still a rather random choice of items.
- doctordbx, on 05/26/2009, -3/+12August 6th, 1945.
Not on the list. Nuff said. - inactive, on 05/26/2009, -0/+8No, it's when Alois forgot to pull out.
- inactive, on 05/26/2009, -2/+10The Black Death should have been number one. The economic, political and sociological impact of the Black Death was colossal.
- inactive, on 05/26/2009, -0/+8I have no idea why kzer got dug down for that.
it's a good, valid point.
***** diggers. - KyotoWolf, on 05/26/2009, -1/+9You can't change history unless it's already written but in that case how can you change history?
- inactive, on 05/26/2009, -0/+7Every event "changes history"...
- asgardshill, on 05/26/2009, -2/+8No no no, we no do the slideshow.
Buried. - inactive, on 05/26/2009, -1/+7That list just cemented its place at the top of "!0 Lists That Really Didn't MAtter"
- rauldeandrade, on 05/26/2009, -0/+6Better tittle "10 randomly chosen events that had impact in the western civilization history."
And test-tube babies #1? It is an important advance in science, but how did this change history? - bskrabak, on 07/08/2009, -0/+5I have a problem with the phrase "changed history." History has happened and can't be changed. It would be more accurate to say "changed the course of the future."
That said, it is also a poor list. Sure they are significant but not all of them should be considered the most significant. - jezsik, on 05/26/2009, -0/+5Hmmm, I'll disagree. While electricity is certainly an enabler of other technologies, I don't think it changed the game as much as the internet. When electricity was first harnessed, it made it more efficient to do work and light things, improvements on what what was already done. The internet, on the other hand, created radical changes to how we work and communicate.
- jezsik, on 05/26/2009, -0/+5Seriously! I was waiting for actual historic events, not total cop-outs like the "discovery" of sugar or the invention of gunpowder. I want "cross the Rubicon" events. "Daily Life in the Agora"? Give me a break!
- paradox2222, on 05/26/2009, -1/+6No fate but what we make...
- inactive, on 05/26/2009, -1/+5The Council of Nicea was where lies like the trinity were adopted.
- inactive, on 05/26/2009, -2/+6neither is the holocaust.
or electricity. - doctordbx, on 05/26/2009, -0/+3Sure, way in front of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb and the birth of Islam.
- DB92, on 05/26/2009, -1/+4What about the rise of Keyboard Cat?
- inactive, on 05/26/2009, -2/+5iiiiiiiiiiiii dunno bout that.
I'd say electricity is bigger than that. - Larke2000, on 05/26/2009, -1/+4erroneous title. events in the present have no influence on events in the past.
- sgnpkd, on 05/26/2009, -0/+3No it was Clara who held him up.
- Recoil, on 05/26/2009, -0/+3Unless you own a time machine, which I sincerely doubt you do, there is no such thing as "changing history". I suppose if you discover a certain historical fact to be false, you'd be changing history in some manner.
- diggopolous, on 05/26/2009, -0/+3The merging of peanut butter and chocolate into a Reese's Cup
- RatatRatR, on 05/26/2009, -0/+3Ah, good point.
- TechEvil, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2Hello, I'm officer Reese
He got peanut butter on my chocolate...
He got chocolate in my peanut butter...
*takes bite*
*shoots survivors* - azimmanjee, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2no semiconductor? really?
- robbiedo, on 05/27/2009, -0/+2It certainly ended scientific progress in Italy for 200 years.
- aenima987, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2I was about to say it but yes this guy's right.
- minnecrapolis, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2I also hate when we refer to events as "events that 'changed' history".
They are events that MADE history, not changed it. - RatatRatR, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2I know it raises arguments about the historicity of the Bible, but I expected to see some mention of Christ and/or the crucifixion.
- macslut, on 05/26/2009, -1/+3CHANGED history??? Let's see:
10 The Delorean
9 Ashton Kutcher
8 Bill
7 Christopher Reeves (He's a two-fer)
6 Star Trek (Most of the movies since Kahn)
5 The Clock Tower
4 Ted
3 Tie: Markie Mark and General Thade
2 Donnie Darko
1 HG Wells - wolfing, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2Pretty arbitrary list with some random things if you ask me. It is a good idea for a list, or even a TV series. Events that defined history. Actually I remember watching a series long time ago that started from some minuscule event in the past, and how that lead up to important things today, I loved it.
- diablc, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2What about the printing press, light bulb, mass manufacturing, and silicon chip?
- Rudegar, on 05/26/2009, -0/+210 events that the guy who had to write this piece recalled after a few mins of brainstorm more like it
- brucealmighty, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2The Agora??? People having intelligent conversations in a public gathering place....how is that an "event" or even any more significant than millions of other similar gathering places throughout history?
- zaferk, on 05/27/2009, -1/+2Holocaust is nothing special. More people have died in other events throughout history.
- guttersniper, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1Everything is chronological except the discovery of gunpowder. Either this is a list in order of significance or it is chronological and the author got a little confused. Either way, this list blows.
- evictedangel, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1Galileo vs. the Church is the single most history changing event ever. Because of the church's reaction, millions of deaths have occurred, lands invaded, republicans have been in charge, and people have committed countless other atrocity's all based off of the fact that when Galileo announced that the Bible needed to be revised because science disproved certain elements of it.
- MarvelZombie, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1Buried for their choice of #1.
plus:
- Manhattan Project?
- WWW? - themadrammer, on 08/18/2009, -0/+1This covers Western civilization only. Buried for inaccuracy
- Charlotte_Web, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1Unless we're all living in an alternate timeline...
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