What are your top 5 most significant moments in history, and why?

Question

There are no right or wrong answers here, just opinions:

1 The Big Bang - created the Universe we inhabit
2 Magna Carta - first ever declaration of human rights
3 Invention of the wheel - we'd be stuffed without it
4 Declaration of American Independence -created the all-powerful, all-influential USA
5 2nd World War - shaped the modern world as we know it

Answer 1

1. Big Bang (Give u that one)
2. Our species becoming bipedal
3. Harnessing of Fire
4. Invention of Writing
5. Birth of Farming

Didn't get very far down the ladder did I

Answer 2

476 AD - Fall of the Roman Empire, the last emperor is deposed by barbarians, although the fall was a steady decline, this was the year that it finally happened, europe descending into the dark ages after this point

Aug 6, 1588 - Spanish Armada defeated, beginning Britain's hegemy (sp) that lasted several hundred years.

July 3, 1863 - Longstreet's frontal assault with Trimble, Picket and Garnett's 15,000 men marked high tide of the Confederacy, a victory would've meant the end of the Civil War and Southern independence.

December 2, 1942 - first controlled nuclear fission under direction of scientist Enricco Fermi marked the beginning of nuclear haulocaust potention, relying on E-MC2 and other scientists work/knowledge before him.

November 11-12 - Fall of the Berlin Wall, end of Soviet Union as we knew it under the Cold War era, leaving one super power in the world.

Source(s):
Other events include:
Defeat of Germans at Stalingrad
Allied victory at Normandy
Nuclear detonations at Nagasaki/Hiroshima
Cuban Missile Crisis - Sept 27, 1962
JKK's assasination
Defeat of Attila in 451 AD

I like your Big Bang event, but if we included all the cataclysmic, geologic, astronomical and galactic events in history, they'd "outscale" all human events, therefore i didn't list any of them.

Answer 3

I agree with your choices of the Big Bang, the invention of the wheel and the developments in military thinking, new technologies / products and geopolitics caused by WWII. I would add the following two:

1. Discovery of fire - which led to cooking / cuisine and the basis of most power generation, modern engines and modern industry. Hard to imagine how difficult or crude life would be without fire.

2. Invention of the transistor - which led to the computer revolution that continues to influence our lives and shape the future in countless ways.

Answer 4

Learning how to use fire
Invention of agriculture
The Industrial Revolution
Invention of airplane
Invention of nuclear energy

I understand including the Big Bang, but I'm limiting my answers to human history. Otherwise you would also have to include a number of other events in the evolution of species. Fire, obviously one of the first steps in differentiating humans from other animals. Agriculture, because it makes civilization possible, and changes human societies from a nomadic hunting type of existence, to people that have to develop villages and other more permanent types of living arrangements. The Industrial Revolution led to a huge jump in human population and made possible all of the technology we use today. I included the invention of the airplane to make five. I'm not sure it really belongs but it is obviously critical in making the world a much smaller place. Nuclear power seems to be critically important to the future of the world. Either it will cause us to destroy ourselves, or make possible some kind of sustainable future society.

Answer 5

The Big Bang is not proven, just a popular, current theory so you can't really include that.

My 5 in no particular order for what they are worth are:

1. Writing
2. Mathmatics
3. Formal Religion
4.The first circumnavigation
5. Major Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.

Answer 6

1. Gulf War - victory of Saddam Husayn over Bush one
2. 1874 - birth of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
3. 1979 - election of Right Honourable Mrs Margaret Thatcher
4. 1981 - inauguration of President Ronald Reagan
5. 1973 - coming to power of General Augusto Pinochet
6. 1776 - birth of United States of America

Answer 7

1 the invention of Fire Man took his place as smartest of animals by controlling that which others can't
2 The roman invasion of Europe It shaped our world and thought
3 The fall of Istanbul Started the Renaissance and the peak of western civilisation
4 French revolution Abolished dictator style leadership taught us not to mix politics and religion
5 The end of WW2 changed the political climate to TRY to stop countries waging war on each other

Answer 8

1. Creation-we wouldn't be here without it
2.Jesus' birth which ushered in Christianity
3.Battle of 1066-The "official" beginning of English Monarchy
4.The invention of the printing Press which allowed the common people to have books and importantly documents and helped The Reformation spread to other countries, which ultimately gave us different religious sects
5.Declaration of Independence which separated us from English rule and changed us from a colony to a country.

Answer 9

1. Norman invasion of England because it got England caught up in European affairs.
2. USA a-bombing Japan which ushered in the Nuclear Age.
3. England not folding against Germany's constant bombardments during WWII which allowed countries like Russia and the USA to get involved and eventually win.
4. Lenin taking over Russia which eventually led to the Cold War
5. Hitler taking over Germany which eventually led to WWII
*The numbering does not necessarily mean that I would put them in that order. I was just trying to list five.

Answer 10

both world wars- because without war there would be no advancement in weapons, medicines and world politics.

the american civil war- because it finally saw the end of enslavement in America and shape America to what it is today geographically.

discovery of electricity- because we rely so heavily on it now.

creation of anastetic and other pain relief drugs- can you imagine child birth and ops without it!!

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