Bump
Round 5 is over!
First, the losers:
- Domestication of Animals
- Egyptian Empires
- Rise of Persian Empire
- Death of Caesar
- Development of Arabic Numerals
- Great Schism Begins (ends 1417)
- Renaissance in Italy
- Invention of Vaccination
- Implementation of Modern Sanitation
- Nuclear Weapons
This is the round where I really wish this game had more participants… over 1/2 of the above selections were a result of a tie in the voting, leading me to use a random number generator to pick the winner, which pretty much defeats the purpose. Fortunately, we got lucky on some of these - it’d be sad to say that the death of Caesar is more important than the expansion of the Empire that made him famous. :o I disagree with the Italian Renaissance being voted out before some of the others still on the list… but then, that was a selection of the random generator.
Round 6 selections…
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Pre-History, Pre 3500 BCE
Invention of Agriculture
Invention of Alphabet
Discovery (and control) of fire
Invention of Language
Invention of Metallurgy -
Bronze and Iron Ages, 3500 BCE-1000 BCE
Hammurabi’s Code
Founding of Ur (first city)
Sumerian Cuniform
Alphabetic Writing Invented
First use of Papyrus -
Early Classical Antiquity, 1000 BCE - 200 BCE
Democracy established in Athens
Alexander the Great conquers the known world
Greek Philosophy and Mathematics at peak
Battle of Marathon
Invention of number “0” and Binary Systems -
Late Classical Antiquity, 200 BCE - 476 AD
Expansion of Roman Empire (Punic Wars, expansion into Gaul, etc)
Augustinian Empire
Life of Jesus
Christianity becomes official religion of Rome
Collapse of Rome -
Early Middle Ages, 477 AD - 1250 AD
Vision of Mohammed and the Rise of Islam
Battle of Hastings
Crusades
Magna Carta
Genghis Khan conquers much of Asia -
Late Middle Ages, 1251 AD - 1453 AD
Ottoman Empire Founded
Hundred Years War Begins
Black Death Begins
Prince Henry the Navigator
Invention of Printing Press -
Early Modern Era, 1454 AD - 1648 AD
Columbus “Discovers” America
Protestant Reformation
Copernican Revolution
Establishment of Dutch-East India company (First global corporation)
Elizabethan Age in England -
Middle Modern Era, 1649 AD - 1788 AD
Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
Rapid development of mathematics
Start of Industrial Revolution
Founding of the US -
19th Century, 1789 AD - 1900 AD
Development of Motorized Mass Transportation (Trains, Ships)
End of Slavery
Beginning of the Oil Age
Germ Theory of Disease developed
Electrification Begins -
20th Century and Beyond, 1901 AD - 2014 AD
WW1
WW2
The Rise of Mass Culture
Invention of the Computer/Internet
Green Revolution
- Invention of Metallurgy
- First use of Papyrus
- Battle of Marathon
- Life of Jesus
- Magna Carta
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Columbus “Discovers” America
- Rapid development of mathematics
- Germ Theory of Disease developed
- The Rise of Mass Culture
- Invention of Alphabet
- First use of Papyrus
- Invention of number “0” and Binary Systems
- Collapse of Rome
- Magna Carta
- Invention of Printing Press
- Copernican Revolution
- Scientific Revolution
- Electrification Begins
- Invention of the Computer/Internet
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[li]Invention of Alphabet[/li][li]Sumerian Cuniform[/li][li]Invention of number “0” and Binary Systems[/li][li]Collapse of Rome[/li][li]Crusades[/li][li] Hundred Years War Begins[/li][li] Copernican Revolution[/li][li] Rapid development of mathematics[/li][li] End of Slavery[/li][li] The Rise of Mass Culture[/li][/ol]
It’d be pretty stupid to, uh, score this thing without submitting my entry…
- Invention of Metallurgy
- Sumerian Cuniform
- Battle of Marathon
- Collapse of Rome
- Battle of Hastings
- Ottoman Empire Founded
- Elizabethan Age in England
- Founding of the US
- Germ Theory of Disease
- WW2 (!!)
We still playin’ this?
- Invention of Alphabet
- Hammurabi’s Code
- Alexander the Great conquers the known world
- Life of Jesus
- Crusades
- Hundred Years War Begins
- Elizabethan Age in England
- Rapid development of mathematics
- End of Slavery
- WW1