The Event that Caused the Most Damage to Humanity?

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Lord Merciless
Nobody mentioned Mongol rampages across the Eurasian continent, and that of their of ancestors, the Huns.

The damages caused by these barbarians to the civilization were unmeasureable.

I mentioned the Huns.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by panag


hi ,

how can the creation of Israel be related to the topic , .....

bye

I could see saying the British arbitrarily dividing up the ME was a pretty bad thing for the future. The manner in which Israel was created perhaps can be seen as something truly negative, though I would say its existence in a general sense is certainly a positive.

[MRT144]

panag, imagine the mideast without israel...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by MRT144
panag, imagine the mideast without israel...

It likely wouldn't be any more peaceful. The Arabs would be able to focus on warring on themselves rather than being distracted by the Jews.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger




They didn't do much damage in terms of destruction of either knowledge or human life.

The Mongol hordes of Genghiz Khan reduced the population of China and the middle east by nearly one-third, and the population of Europe by about one-quarter. Since they never got past Poland their destruction would have been concentrated in eastern europe and must have been catastrophic in propoprtions.

The Huns broke the power of the western Roman empire and depopulated large parts of Germany, and the norhtern provinces of the Roman empires, eastern and western. They drove the German tribes across the Rhine and Danube before them, and therefore can be considered to have been the penultimate cause of the fall of ther western empire and the beginning of the dark ages.

[MRT144]

but america wouldnt be backing the sworn enemy of the arabs...

[Boris Godunov]

I'm sure we'd be backing someone's sworn enemy, meddling in affairs as usual, and I'm sure the Osama crowd would still hate the U.S. for its wealth, power and interference.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


I could see saying the British arbitrarily dividing up the ME was a pretty bad thing for the future. The manner in which Israel was created perhaps can be seen as something truly negative, though I would say its existence in a general sense is certainly a positive.

Would the locals dividing up the area have been any better? The Ottomans had divided the area up as provinces which were not established according to tribal holdings. At this time the Saudis were rather ambitious, and likely would have initiated a Jihad to unite the Arab world, i.e., Iraq, Syria, the Gulf states, and Palestine. Certainly there would have been war, and certainly the Europeans would have been invited in by some of the warring parties. The results would have been the nearly the same, temporary European occupation and borders with which many people would not have been happy.
Didn't the royal families established in Jordan, Syria, and Iraq all come from Saudi Arabia?

[MRT144]

maybe, but it doesnt hurt to eliminate harmful factors.

oh yeah, another bad thing for humanity: brahms' birth

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


It likely wouldn't be any more peaceful. The Arabs would be able to focus on warring on themselves rather than being distracted by the Jews.

Yes, the Shiites and the Sunnis could concentrate on each other. How romantic.

[Boris Godunov]

Nyuk nyuk nyuk

[Edan]

Originally posted by MRT144
but america wouldnt be backing the sworn enemy of the arabs...

if we had troops in Saudi Arabia, to protect it from Iraq, we would be (well, the sworn enemies of the radical arabs, like Bin Laden). Of course, by the time Iraq had invaded Kuwait (causing the US to put it's troops in SA), he would have already have had nuclear weapons, so I dunno if we'd want to risk putting in troops into Saudi Arabia.

[Edan]

Event 1. That event both allowed for the creation of Humanity, and, thanks to the laws of thermodynamics, will inevitably destroy humanity. Both of which were pretty damaging events for humanity.

[Sava]

The invention of agriculture. This caused human populations to grow far beyond the somewhat stable level they had been at for thousands of years. With agriculture, human beings have been able to sustain populations of 6 billion and rising. More people = more bad sh1t.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Sava
The invention of agriculture. This caused human populations to grow far beyond the somewhat stable level they had been at for thousands of years. With agriculture, human beings have been able to sustain populations of 6 billion and rising. More people = more bad sh1t.

As opposed to humans remaining nomads, and there fore remaing leopard chow as there is ample evidence thereof in South Africa. Would you be happier if your daily exercise routine included being chased by large carnivors?