# What three things have influenced history the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 7, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-three-things-have-influenced-history-the-most/122852 "2002-08-07T21:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-three-things-have-influenced-history-the-most/122852/41 "2002-08-13T03:24:19Z")
1. The domestication of animals, especially dogs. Without dogs helping us out we are just another tasty food item for the saber- toothed cats. 2. Fire. Fire. Fire. - Beavis (the harnessing of). 3. War. Sort of a bummer, but it seems to be the natural state of humanity. OR 1. Sex. 2. Natural disasters, including weather. 3. Navigation - astronomy factors in here. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-three-things-have-influenced-history-the-most/122852/42 "2002-08-13T10:15:51Z")
Double entry book keeping was very important to the mercantile and investment culture of the late Renaissance. When Natural Philosophy and engineering met Money and venture capitalism, things really started to hot up. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-three-things-have-influenced-history-the-most/122852/43 "2002-08-13T10:32:19Z")
Power, sex, and mortality. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-three-things-have-influenced-history-the-most/122852.md?page=2)