Who was the most influential human being ever?

Question

Apart from Jesus

Answer 1

The guys that figured out how to tame fire, use a language to communicate, how to keep and grow crops, domesticate animals and invented the wheel. Unfortunately geniuses has always been misunderstood and no one felt them important enough to remember their names.

Answer 2

There can't be only one person more influential than any other. The number of influential individuals can certainly be narrowed down though by looking at the principle characteristic that make a civilization, (aside from agriculture, and permanent urban settlements) This is organized institutions (religion, government, social class/hierarchy, etc)

By looking at the most influential persons who influenced the formation of our present organized institutions, you can come up with a short and concise list of history's most influential individuals.

For our world's religions and modern morals and beliefs: Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad.

For philosophy that shaped the way society perceives the individual, and the relationship between citizens and their government: Plato and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

For education and the ability to share and spread knowledge: Johannes Gutenberg

Hope this helps you,
Peace.

Answer 3

Jesus...this is such a debatable topic. And no, my answer's not Jesus.

I think it needs to be broken into segments. Like most influential religious leader (Jesus, Mohammad), most influential scientist (Einstein, Newton), most influential political leader (Churchill, Hitler, Stalin...), most influential artist (Picasso, Rembrandt), and the list can go on forever.

Or you can do "Person of the Age". Like most influential person of the Renaissance (Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, etc.) or most influential person of the Industrial Revolution (James Watt..) or the medieval era (Robespierre, Erasmus, Voltaire..). That's what I did in my European history class.

Really, you can break it up in many ways. List of most influential Americans: http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/news/100_most_influential_figures_.shtml


My history teacher said that you really can't pin-point "the most influential human being ever". There have been so many contributions in so many fields in different times throughout history. It's like asking what was the best invention made...it is too subjective and debatable.

Answer 4

Grog of the Cave Bear Clan was dubbed "most influential human being ever" by the elders of the tribe in the Year 60,563 BC for first coming up with the concept of gods, goddesses, angels and devils to keep member of his clan in line.

Now, there are over 80% of the Earth's population who believe in some sort of higher being or belong to some organized religion......

Answer 5

Jesus Christ, i'm atheist yet then i by no ability believed he became something yet a stable man or woman, in spite of everything, he gave us a collection of regulations to stay via that to this present day, are nonetheless no longer somewhat lived via, to no longer point out he became condemned to death via his very own sort, 2,000 years bypass and his very own sort are nonetheless being persecuted, and he nonetheless maintains to be a secret, if that don't value some severe effect, then i do no longer understand what the hell does anymore, i advise atheist or no longer, this is a guy that became placed to death basically for doing what in todays worldwide could be no extra advantageous than the equivalent of one basically writing, a love novel . . .

Answer 6

Han Feizi is a good candidate. He was one of the early Legalist scholars in China. His ideas were used to reform the western state of Qin, which then unified China, displaced Confucianism as a governing philosophy, and set the groundwork for a strong central government in what is now the most populous country in the world (soon to be surpassed by India), and the fastest growing economy in the world.

Whatever the Legalist-inspired government of China does (and if you read the Legalists and study the current regime, you can see the family resemblance!), it will be big. Here in California, we're breathing Chinese smog, for instance.

Answer 7

Alexander the Great, nearly took over the world before he was 30 and aid down the foundations for the western civilization

Answer 8

Dr. E von Wolf was (and maybe still is) pretty much influential - read below copy-pasted article from Wikipedia:

The myth about spinach and its high iron content may have first been propagated by Dr. E. von Wolf in 1870, because a misplaced decimal point in his publication led to an iron-content figure that was ten times too high. In 1937, German chemists reinvestigated this "miracle vegetable" and corrected the mistake. It was described by T.J. Hamblin in British Medical Journal, December 1981.
Ultimately, the bioavailability of iron is dependent on its absorption. This is influenced by a number of factors. Iron enters the body in two forms: nonheme iron and heme iron. All of the iron in grains and vegetables, and about three fifths of the iron in animal food sources (meats), is nonheme iron. The much smaller remaining portion from meats is heme iron (Williams, 1993).
The larger portion of dietary iron (nonheme) is absorbed slowly in its many food sources, including spinach. This absorption may vary widely depending on the presence of binders such as fiber or enhancers, such as vitamin C. Therefore, the body's absorption of non-heme iron can be improved by consuming foods that are rich in vitamin C. However, spinach contains high levels of oxalate. Oxalates bind to iron to form ferrous oxalate and remove iron from the body. Therefore, a diet high in oxalate (or phosphate or phytate) leads to a decrease in iron absorption.

Answer 9

Thomas Edison.

We live our lives COMPLETELY differently now then we did before electricity.

Bill Gates is a distant 2nd.

Without either of these individuals I wouldn't be sitting here in a lighted room at 2 am, typing on a computer with people thousands of miles away.

Eve is third. I hate wearing clothes.

Answer 10

From the standpoint of bringing together East and West cultures, Alexander the Great.

For being responsible for genocide and death on an unimaginable scale Hitler.

For championing the cause of the poor and disenfranchised, Mother Teresa.