2007-10-31 23:15:00 · 25 answers · asked by asd 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Jesus!
2007-10-31 23:18:10 · answer #1 · answered by daisy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All the answers so far are pretty much from the Western perspective. I.e. Jesus, Bush, Hitler. But for me the most impactful individual identifiable in history was probably Genghis Kahn. In a single lifetime (not over many like the Romans) he carved out an empire across the whole of Asia and much of current Europe. He implemented reading, postal systems and laws across huge tracts of land affecting thousands of previously isolated individual tribes. The amount of people his wars killed alone have seriously affected who is a live today - recent studies have shown that one in 200 men in the world carry the Y chromosome that Genghis brought from his particular area of the world; that gene would still be locked into some tribe in Mongolia if Genghis hadn't been a vicious man with unquenchable ambition.
2007-10-31 23:34:02 · answer #2 · answered by future_man_uk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grog of the Cave Bear Clan was dubbed "person with the most impact in history" in the Year 65,563 BC for his creation of the concept of an afterlife and higher being. And to this day, some 80% of the earth's population have some sort of distorted worldview.
2007-11-01 02:44:53 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree I think Jesus is a good answer in western civilisation but consider some other candidates that have impacted the entire world..
The person who invented bombs
The person who invented guns
The person who discovered drugs
Martin Luther King Jr who denounced slavery
The scientists that developed the first spaceshuttle
The scientist who discovered penicilin
The scientist who discovered electricity
The scientist who discovered a vaccine for TB
there are many worthy candidates wouldn't you agree?
2007-10-31 23:29:09 · answer #4 · answered by beautyspot23 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Johann Gutenberg, whom invented the printing press thus allowing even the poor people to read the Bible and other books. Without him we would never have had computers, I doublt Christanity would have been so big, and most the technology we take for granted would never have seen the light of day.
2007-11-01 01:52:27 · answer #5 · answered by White Star 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus of Nazareth, weather it is the historical Jesus ,or the son of God, His birth and life has shaped history in the most profound way and caused more controversy than any other person in History.
2007-10-31 23:22:07 · answer #6 · answered by happygirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Julius Caesar brought the Roman civilisation to Britain and Britain took the seeds of that civilisation around the empire and to America.
2016-05-26 06:28:57 · answer #7 · answered by janene 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gutenberg
2007-11-01 00:17:24 · answer #8 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nikola Tesla.
2007-11-01 03:59:34 · answer #9 · answered by divljidzo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus. Whether you believe in him or not, the man/story has definately had the biggest impact on the world in my opinion.
Either that.....or Oprah! lol
2007-10-31 23:19:08 · answer #10 · answered by financebarbie78 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say Christopher Columbus, as he is the one that found the, Americas
2007-10-31 23:22:34 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋