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

[[Phill]]

Meh, WTF. Who cares.

Did i take a wrong turning and end up at Politics.

OK, its bad because it killed more than 12 people but less than 100% of the human race.

Any way you look at it, definantly a significant historical event in the history of humanity, let alone the past 2100 years. The species was as close to being wiped out then than it ever has been before or since.

[PokerGolfFiend]

2003- moneymaker wins 2003 ME, significant to the world of sports.

[AngusThermopyle]

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best thing to say is "two thirds of the population of europe and china"

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Ok. You still don't think it affected history that much?

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2003- moneymaker wins 2003 ME

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[Diplomat]

1. Electricity
2. Printing press
3. Merchantilism
4. St. Paul's contribution to the bible
5. The Peace of Westphalia

I should qualify this list though to say what I would rank from 4 to 10 are almost identical, as are 1-3...the order is pretty arbitrary. It would be a lot easier to put events into rough groups of importance rather than assigning each a specific rank.

I would say one thing though -- if you are going to put microprocessors up there (and it's on my top 10), you've gotta have electricity too.

-Diplomat

[Farfenugen]

#1: European Colonialism

European colonialism has had the most effect on the world of any event by far. It shaped the entire world. Two entire continents of indiginous peoples were wiped out. Who is rich and who is poor and who fights who today was all sorted out through european colonialism.

In whatever order, doesn't matter. These were all very important but none to the magnitude of colonialism:

Rise of monotheistic religion
WWII
Invention of the Computer
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[KotOD]

No order:

Kublai Khan's decision to invade Japan (twice!)
Invention of modern circulating air conditioning
Printing press
Declaration of independence
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

[Shadowrun]

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best thing to say is "two thirds of the population of europe and china"

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Ok. You still don't think it affected history that much?



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This is where your reading comprehension has failed you. I never said it never affected history that much (whatever much is). In fact i think it did affect history greatly (not top 5 but whatever).

What i did say was "i dont see what the argument for the black plague is. " And all i got was "dude, it killed a lot of people"

The simple fact that the Black Plague killed many people is only a footnote in history. The importance comes from the changes in social structure it caused not because it just "killed a lot of people."

I could give many other reasons about the importance of the plague.

Basically, i was looking for analysis and what i got was a poor one sentence summary.

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2003- moneymaker wins 2003 ME, significant to the world of sports.

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Quit posting [censored] like this. It obviously isn't top 5, what is the point of bringing it up?

Phil,

Disagree about birth of jesus overall. Influence of events by that is very large. I think it is probably at least top 10.

[Farfenugen]

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2003- moneymaker wins 2003 ME, significant to the world of sports.

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Quit posting [censored] like this. It obviously isn't top 5, what is the point of bringing it up?



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