Top five most significant historical events of the past 2100 years.

[cortjstr]

ok..top 5 list day two.

Title says it..top 5 significant events last 2100 years.

1. Birth of Christ
2. Invention of Computer
3. Guttenberg Press
4. Black Plague
5. Flight

Choice of Christ's birth is not from my religious point of view but rather for it's significance on modern world events. I work with computers (and hate them) but gotta give it credit.

tommorow: Top 5 Movie villians of all time.

[pokerbobo]

Paris hilton sex tape release
moneymaker winning wsop main event
justin timberlake goes solo
algore narrates "dont let the truth be inconvenient"
The internet gets its billionth site...amazingly only 827,659,984 of them are porn sites.
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In no particular order

[areinitz]

I hope Ivan Drago is one of the top villians

[kutuz_off]

Jesus but no Mohammad? He has no less bearing on the course of history. Are you sure it wasn't "from my religious point of view"?

[MEbenhoe]

1. Death of Christ (argument is that this was more significant than his birth because his death was what spawned christianity not his birth from a historical perspective)
2. Plague
3. Guttenberg Press
4. Magna Carta
5. World War II

[cortjstr]

yes im sure..

[[Phill]]

Abolition of slavery

Plague (as a side note of personal interest the village where my parents live has a plague pit under its green where there are around 700 bodies - always put the chills up my spine that one)

World war 2

The invention of the microprocessor

The development of modern medicine

To narrow the medicine one down would be harsh, penicillen, antiseptics, heart transplants, IVF, cloning, stem cell research, brain surgery, key hole surgery, the list is pretty endless, and i think all of them are more significant looking forward than just about anything you could list.

Im not 100% sold on Jesus ever existing, though i agree the balance of evidence is he probably existed in some form or another. I also think if we include on prophet we have to include all prophets. If he lived exactly as told in the Bible, i still believe his birth or death is not worthy of a top 5.

[tagtastic]

Stuff like sanitation, germ theory, antibiotics, etc have impacted humans far more than anything listed in the OP.

Electricity and assembly line/mass production has impacted industrialized nations massively as well.

Printing press is a good one, don't really like the others on your list though. Agriculture advances would be another big one.

Someone will say "but it's a 2100 span!" - in reality life has changed far more in the last 200 years than the previous 1900, thus making those changes more significant imo.

[Shadowrun]

i dont see what the argument for the black plague is.

[MicroBob]

Declaration of Independence?

I think an argument could be made to put that somewhere in the top 5 or top 10.
How different would the world be today if the United States had never come to be?