What do you consider to be the most important event in history?

Answer 1

Guttenburgs invention of changeable type or modern printing.
Printing existed in a form in Europe and China and even ancient Rome, Egypt, Greece and even back to the first civilization on earth, Mesopotamia, but in each instance the whole page was carved and the type couldn't be changed.

When Guttenburg invented changeable type, books became available to everyone, everyone could have their own small library and circulation libraries started. For the first time almost anyone could afford to have a pamphlet printed expressing their dissatisfaction with the church and state which resulted in changing society to make it more equitable. It was the start of weekly and daily newspapers, so everyone could now know the news and form their own opinions about what was happening in the world whereas they didn't even know what was happening in other places.

Guttenburg's invention allowed for the explosion of ideas that led to millions of scientific discoveries, all three industrial revolutions, the freedom of people to publish their own political beliefs, freedom to publish their own religious beliefs and to read the Bible for themselves because it could be printed, not just copied by monks and distributed by the church.

Without Guttenburg we would not have the computers we are looking at now, let along a thousand inventions we take for granted. We wouldn't even have near universal literacy, most of the population today, withoug Guttenburg, would know how to read because their would be nothing too read.

Answer 2

I wouldn't so much say one event stcoks out in my mind as much as a culture. Roman culture provided the building blocks for today's government, technology and society, as well as contributing greatly to art, the imrpovement of education, and sciences.

If I had to cite a specific event, though, I'd have to say the Signing of the Magna Carta is up there.

Answer 3

As there's a large form of wreck throughs i think of online gaming has moved gaming into an entire new point and made it greater social and greater dazzling to the element the place human beings purchase video games on the foundation of online skill somewhat than marketing campaign or tale

Answer 4

as a lover of history, this is a VERY difficult question, because there are so many things that have played important events to help shape who we are today. so, i will have to say this, and i'm sure many will shake their heads but this is my answer: when pre-historic man called Homo Erectus first made fire. and from that, we have continued to evolve into what we are... *which, at times, is a scary thing*

Answer 5

The emergence of Homo Sapiens. This one species has developed the amazing range of cultures and inventions that have shaped the world, affecting all other species of the planet. That has led to amazing wonders, exciting insights - and appalling disasters not only for humanity itself, but for all living things. Sadly we are more dominantly clever than wise, and have (more than any other animal) a remarkable capacity for avoiding reality - a side effect of our capacity for imagination and for living in our perception of reality instead of crude reality itself, perhaps. So, at present, between religious fundamentalism fuelling war, and "economic" fundamentalism persisting with largely business as usual creating poverty on one hand and opulence wreaking climate change and extinction on the other, we may be experiencing the beginning of the end of that event.

Answer 6

The day Grog of the Cave Bear Clan came up with the concept of god, goddesses, angels, demons, heaven and hell in the Year 36,563 BC to bribe members of his tribe to keep them in line.....and the world was never the same again.

Answer 7

When the first broken mirror caused 7 years of bad luck.

Answer 8

i don't know...i have a lot that i really think are important, but World War II was REALLY significant because it brought the U.S. out of a huge depression...and who knows what would have happened to the world if no one tried to stop hitler? also, america's economy might be really different if WW2 didn't happen.

Answer 9

The invention of moveable type and the modern printing press. Its invention allowed the fast easy and inexpensive decimination of knowledge and learning.

Answer 10

Sally Ride's trip into outer space...........YOU GO GIRL!!

Shuttle flight STS-7 departed from Earth on June 18th, 1983, with Sally Ride aboard. Her job on the shuttle was flight engineer. That meant that she was in charge of making sure that the shuttle's mechanical systems were performing properly. She also had to explain problems to commander Robert Crippen. This shuttle's mission purpose was to put two satellites from Canada and Indonesia into orbit around the Earth. After doing this successfully. Sally Ride and her fellow astronauts returned to Earth. She was now the first American woman to go into space.

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