What do you think is the most significant event in human history?

Question

Well, what do you think? Give reasons as to why it is significant and why it was necessary to create the world we have today.
I only want actual historic facts as well, no biblical references or religious tales please.
Thanks.

Grrrrr, i said NO religious answers!!
I don’t deny that when the story of Jesus and Christianity was created that it was significant, but its just a story, i want events.
Reformation didn’t really effect the world or human history that much, its just another form of Christianity. I can see how its clashes with other Christian sects has shaped history though

Answer 1

I think that the most significant event in human history is the day that we first stood up on two legs.
It was this first step that freed up our chest muscles and arms formally used for transport on all fours.

We could use tools allowing for technological developement.

Those muscles used for movement could now be used to help create a varied array of sounds making communication so much easier. Communication and it's bulding of society is the cornerstone of our civilisation.

Answer 2

Top 3, in order of significance:

1. Creation of Humans
2. Birth/Life/Death of Jesus
3. Reformation

The first one requires faith to believe, but Christian or not you can't deny the significance of the latter two.

EDIT, for your addition:

The reformation and Jesus didn't change human history much? Have you ever even studied history? Do you have any idea how many wars were fought with Jesus as the stated reason (hypocricy aside)? Do you have any idea how much territory was exchanged as a result of these wars? Every monarchy in all of Europe in the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance was dictated by a loyalty to the church. Kings were beheaded for violating church tenants.

And the reformation? Without the reformation, America itself would've never been founded! The American was founded on the very premise of religious freedom from Britain's Anglicanism.

I know you're trying to justify that religion plays a very small role in world history, but you're dead wrong. The world would be an amazingly different place, more different than anything else, had Jesus not lived and the reformation not occured. Whether you believe in the tenants of Christianity or not, you'd have to be blind not to see this.

Answer 3

Invention of the printing press. This allowed access to the bible (one of the only books available at the time) in Europe to secular people. It allowed people to print treatises and share political/social/religious ideas. Led to what will hopefully be worldwide literacy. I could go on here. But I really think the printing press was a gigantic deal. I can't imagine what our world would be like today without it.

Answer 4

1. defeat of the Neanderthals (which can be indirectly attributed to the development of our cerebral cortex...but that's another story) at the battle of hidden lakes, germany, effected humanity for all eternity.

2. invasion of Poland in Sept. 1939, affected 50 million souls who would never see the light of day by May 1945....

3. Bolshevic Revolution in 1918, affected 70 million souls who fell during Stalinist purges of the 30's...

Answer 5

~Without a doubt, the battle of El Jarzubayeen between the forces of Richard II and Saladin in 1188 ce. The result of the defeat of Richard's force on the Saudi plains gave Saladin control of the southern Mediterranean. From there, he launched his attack on the Dardanelles from whence his lieutenant, Salim ib Fasool split the Catholic empire and essentially created the Holy See in Byzantium, where the remaining crusaders had fled and fortified.

The ultimate effect of the battle was the schism of the Catholic Church and the inevitable struggle between the usurping Pope in Rome versus the rightful Pope in Constantinople, control of eastern trade routes to the middle east and orient, and the depression into which Europe was plunged. The few crusaders who managed to return to France, Germany and England brought with them the syphilis and bubonic plague which brought on the Dark Ages and reduced the population of Europe by more than one third over less than a decade.

The crusaders who fled east established their enclave in Agra, where they began construction on a fortress which ultimately was completed by Shah Raj Jahan as the Taj Mahal. About 500 crusaders continued eastward and settled in what is now Singapore and Hong Kong, which, centuries later, paved the way for the British domination in those 2 city states and opened the doors to China to the west. Some of the descendants of these settlers met and sailed with Ferdinand Magellan and founded a colony on the island of Molokai (where most of the remaining descendants died of leprosy when Father Damian moved in)

A group of 37 crusaders were shipwrecked on Malta and built a fortress there. That fortress was turned over to the faithfull followers of these knights, who called themselves the Knights Templar. Ever mindful of the manner in which the Vatican had deserted them in the time of peril at Jarzubayeen, the Knights Templar began their war against the church which theoretcally ended with the burning of Jaques DeMolay at the stake during the Inquisition.

The church, refusing to allow word of the Jarzubayeen defeat to be disseminated throughout Europe, which would have been an acknowldgement of the falibility and vulnerability of the church and christian "superiority", branded and killed as heretics anyone who discussed the battle. Martin Luther was a direct descendant of one of the knights who escaped to Malta and knew of the battle through family oral traditions and histories. This, and his resulting animosity toward the church, as much as anything led him to post the 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg Church.

The far-reaching effects of this battle changed the course of history. Of course, we would not know of it but for the most significant event in human history, the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450 (216 years after the actual invention of the press in China.)

Answer 6

The Industrial revolution. With out the industrial revolution we would not have the life that we have now, we would also not have global warming. Basically, if we did not have the industrial evolution, we would not have the technology that we have today. Not having the technology that we have today, we would not have Yahoo Answers, and then what would we do with our time?

Answer 7

After human being came into existance

one of the most eventful day was when adam and eve tasted apple

Answer 8

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The discovery of the first fig tree

It had seedless fruit and could only grow if it was farmed. This started one of the earliest farming industries

.. of course the discovery of fire was big too ...

... and Darwin who began to let people break free of religious fables with his discovery of how Evolution works (many still have not learned).

Answer 9

The creation of the printing press. It made mass communication possible.

Answer 10

Sorry, but when Jesus hung on a cross between Heaven and earth and laid down His life for us, that was the most significant event in human history.

Whether or not you believe what the Bible has to say about that event, no other event has had greater and longer lasting impact on the course of human history than that event as it has played out in the decision making of leaders and ordinary people in their day to day life.

Consider the meditations of Napoleon on this matter.

Napoleon expressed these thoughts while he was exiled on the rock of St. Helena. There, the conqueror of civilized Europe had time to reflect on the measure of his accomplishments. He called Count Montholon to his side and asked him, "Can you tell me who Jesus Christ was?" The count declined to respond. Napoleon countered:

Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him.... I think I understand something of human nature; and I tell you, all these were men, and I am a man: none else is like Him; Jesus Christ was more than man.... I have inspired multitudes with such an enthusiastic devotion that they would have died for me.... but to do this it was necessary that I should be visibly present with the electric influence of my looks, my words, of my voice. When I saw men and spoke to them, I lighted up the flame of self-devotion in their hearts.... Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space. Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful! In defiance of time and space, the soul of man, with all its powers and faculties, becomes an annexation to the empire of Christ. All who sincerely believe in Him, experience that remarkable, supernatural love toward Him. This phenomenon is accountable; it is altogether beyond the scope of man's creative powers. Time, the great destroyer, is powerless to extinguish this sacred flame; time can neither exhaust its strength nor put a limit to its range. This is it, which strikes me most; I have often thought of it. This is which proves to me quite convincingly the Divinity of Jesus Christ.