Me, I would say the death of christ. Without that the religon was unlkely to spread unless that happend. I hink this because so many events have been influenced by christanity(not that other religons helphed impement important parts of history).
What do you think?
(this has probably has been discussed but maybe some new poeople can get into discussing it)
Probably life forming from the primordeal soup. If that hadn’t happened, nothing else would have mattered much.
Others of course will argue that it was the formation of a solid planetary crust, or even the fact that the planet condensed in the “life-zone” around the sun instead of out the by asteroid belt.
Some may point to the fact that the whole freakin’ solar system condensed out of matter that had been impacted by previous novae, thereby giving us the heavier elements to even form the planet.
Many opinions exist. If you want them narrowed down a bit, try posting for context.
Ok, the context would be human history IE man discoverng fire.
My birth
Is that you Jebus?
No one can argue that religious beliefs are probably the most influential catalyst in this world today. Whether you believe or not, the fact remains that everybody’s life has been somehow influenced by someone else’s desire to inflict their ideas on someone else. The WTC attack probably affected many non-religious people, but their family and friends are still dead nonetheless. Because of a belief.
Religous beliefs are not what I indicated. Chrisianity was the goverment(and kindof still is) for everything. In the middle ages, you disagree with the church bam decapitated.
Aside from the invention of spelling, I’d have to favor the birth of Cecil, since only that has allowed this particular event.
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In resolving an events impact on today’s world:
The closer an event is to the present (ie Sept 11) the more pertinant it is on the present state of things.
The further the event is in the past the broader and more developed the consequences are (ie the fall of Rome)
So in assesing the most important event in our history I’d have to say its something that happened along time ago that we are all still very much collectively aware of.
So I’d have to say the death of Christ, if, indeed it happened. Perhaps, though, the more important event was the dissemination and development of Christian ideas by Paul.
The invention of the printing press; allowing the relatively inexpensive and efficient tranmission of knowledge and information to the masses.
Probably two hydrogen molecules bumping into each other just after the big bang
Did I say molecules? I meant atoms.
By “world” do you mean Earth? Or the entire universe?
IF the universe, I’ll go with the formation of the first atom from elementary particles.
If the Earth, I’ll go with the evolution of man, the greatest creature the Earth has ever, and will ever, produce.
—I’ll go with the evolution of man, the greatest creature the Earth has ever, and will ever, produce.—
Get out. How dare you overlook Ultraman.
http://www.accelero.com/smmcnutt/ultraman/ubook1.html
Anyways, let me ask what seems to be an obvious question: important for WHAT? Just “important” doesn’t seem to covney any sort of definative criteria over which we can have a combined discussion. It seems more like liscence for people to argue not just about what is “most important” but also what they are using “most important” to mean.
I think by ‘important event’ the idea is something that mankind did. An invention, a battle, an election, etc. Dinosaur-killing asteroids and evolution don’t really fit.
I think you could make a case for importance of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. It precipitated WWI, which precipitated the fall of the Russian government and the rise of the Bolsheviks. The repercussions of WWI led to the rise of Hitler, which led to WWII, and the subsequent cold war.
What would the world look like today and in the future if WWI had been avoided?
In that case how about (1) the development of sedentary agriculture, or (2) the Industrial Revolution. Everything in between was just kind of killing time before a better thing came around.
If it had to be more specific, I’d pick the American Revolution, or the French Enlightenment which provided it’s intellectual backdrop. Set the stage for the major shifts in political structure and economics that helped create the enormous prosperity that exists today. The French Revolution had potential, but unfortunately got hijacked by communists and various other murdering thugs and eventually ran out of gas, pulling into Napolean’s dictatorial service shop.
Acording to Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August, the Kaiser had decided to start a war. She says that the assassination was merely a convenient pretext.
That raises the question of what an event is. Can we count WWI as an event? Or even, the combination of WWI and WWII? How about the renaissance?
The domestication of small grains, e.g. rice, wheat, maize, oats.
The establishment of towns.
The development of the horse collar.
How about the invention of the Nuclear bomb. Eventually those suckers will lead to massive nuclear winter and this world will be turned in to nothing but a barren wasteland, marking the end of life (besides obscure bacteria) on this planet possibly forever.
The question wasn’t hypothetical.
Who?