if you could change 1 event in history, which would it be ?

Answer 1

If I could change one event in history, it would be the prevention of the fire that destroyed the Library of Alexandria. Mankind was set back hundreds of years when all of the information in this library was lost. Many of the so called modern inventions had already been invented (at least in a crude form) in ancient times. When the library was lost, mankind lost a tremendous amount of knowledge.

Answer 2

this question is harder then i thought. However i too would have to go with the burning of the library at Alexandria.

Sure stopping Hitler, 9/11 and all that seem great, but without Hitler another would probably have risen, without 9/11 the strike by radical Islam may have been worse (Imagine a world where Saddam was not stopped and strikes someplace with Nukes)

so when changing history one must be careful, but that loss of knowledge at Alexandria....sighs

Answer 3

Aushvitts Shocking,Shocking,Shocking. But I guess the thing I remember most was The abervan Disaster in Wales, the reason I remember this was because it was the day I sat my 11 plus at school we were told to put down our pencils and remember those children for 1 minute.

Answer 4

Nothing.
Every past event has an effect on everything after. So you wouldn't just change one thing.
Who knows what kind of effect changing one thing would have. The changes won't all be positive.

Answer 5

The fall of the Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium

Answer 6

Ratifying the US Constitution. The Articles of Confederation were good enough and wouldn't have led us into the huge centralised freedom eating mass murdering monster we have today. Just my humble opinion of course.

Answer 7

The killing of Bobby Kennedy. Our country would have avoided most of the Vietnam War and our Civil Rights would be a lot different today. He was going to win the Presidency for sure.

Answer 8

politicsguy and Pirate Princess, if you look at other sources concerning the political and social climate of Europe and indeed the globe before both World Wars, it's very unlikely that the non-occurence of either the events you suggest would prevent war - it was clear at both times that war or conflict of some kind was looming, with or without these specific triggers.

Personally, I'd prevent the birth of Jesus, or the election of George W. Bush.
Let's see how many thumbs down I get for that. =P

Answer 9

GREAT question.... well for me it would be with out a doubt the holocaust!!that was the biggest sin against humanity ever committed.what hitler and the nazi's did to the jews is indescribly upsettin!!
In the more recent history, the death of Princess Diana should never have happened!!she still had so much more to do to help the world!

Answer 10

Moses would have picked a different spot in the Middle East to settle the tribes of Israel (maybe somewhere with oil)
Or Abraham didn't begat Ishmael.