Most Important Event in History?

Question

In your opinion what is the most important event in history? By History I mean anytime, not just the history of the United States. The most developed, in depth answer will get 10 pts.

Answer 1

The single most important event in history?

When mankind first learned to harness and use the power of fire in a controlled manner. Everything else would have been impossible without it.

Second most important, the wheel.

Answer 2

The ushering in of the modern era when the Trinity nuclear test was successfully completed outside of Los Alamos in July, 1945. It created a new world order, not one based on who could conquer the most land, but who could create the best and brightest technologies. It brought about the scariest times the world has ever seen, the Cold War. It was (metaphorically speaking) a duel with pistols at twenty paces between the world's greatest superpowers. Only this time, instead of the one side taking the bullet and losing, the whole world would have been the losers in a nuclear apocalypse. It helped bring in the Age of Information and technology with each side (USA and USSR) trying to create the best weapons and field the highest technology in the world. If it had not been for that lone weapons test in Nevada, I probably would not be typing this right now, as this technology would probably not be around. The Trinity Atomic test sits right up there with the Fall of the Roman Empire, and the Renaissance, but in my opinion at the top.

Answer 3

The most important event in human history would have to be, probably, the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution. Man finally learned to live in stationary communities and develop political societies.

Without this event, there would be no history.

Answer 4

I would say the scientific revolution, when people like Copernicus, Gallileo, and Isaac Newton started to look at the world and tried to figure out how it worked rather than just accepting what other people had believed earlier.

Answer 5

I think most people would argue that the crucifiction of Jesus might be the most important event in history.

Answer 6

there are so many noteable ones that you could say...but for me, i would have to argue that it is the industrial revolution. the revolution meant that we had factories and technology. because of the revolution there was ammunition for all wars fought, the production line that Henry Ford helped create had the opportunity to BE created because of technology.

technology has advanced and is where it is today because of the indutrial revolution. because of this, i argue it is this which has had the most impact on civilisation....especially for us now who rely so heavily on technology in our lives

Answer 7

I think, the Neolithic invention of Agriculture; the atomic bomb and the g-nome decoding...in roughly that order.

Answer 8

The birth of Christ. He brought light into world that was without!