Top Ten Most Significant Events of The Last 1000 Years

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by MrFun
You mean when Amerindians discovered the Americas or are you referring to when Europeans arrived in the Americas?

The Amerindians arrived more than 1,000 years ago. It's only been ~ 500 years since the Europeans arrived and the Amerindians grumbled, "There goes the neighborhood."

[Dis]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


The Amerindians arrived more than 1,000 years ago. It's only been ~ 500 years since the Europeans arrived and the Amerindians grumbled, "There goes the neighborhood."

*cough*Vikings *cough*

[DarkCloud]

Dissident-
the viking discovery wasn't important in the sense that it didn't hearld a series of coloniations by many europan nations that colonized 2 entire continents

discovery of electrical generation

discovery of powered flight

discovery and use as gunpowder as an offensive weapon (instead of useless fireworks)

In response to the others:
gunpowder- is out (I'm excluding military advances)

powered flight- tempting, but I don't see how it tops any of the above as being a culturally significant icon.

electrical generation- VERY important... but I can't see what I should kick.

It is very hard to list merely 10 important events. If people would allow me, I'd append the list, extending it to 11 and adding the discovery of Electrical Generation at the bottom.

MrMitchell

1) Man walks on the Moon

2) Invention of the Printing Press

3) Protestant Reformation

4) Discovery of the New World

5) Fall of Colonialism

6) WWI

7) Russian Revolution

8) the Holocaust

9) American Revolution

10) First slaves brought to America

Interesting list.
I cant see though how 10 is a worldwide important event?

As for the Holocaust- If you make that event WWII and cause it to be more inclusive, I'll agree with you. When I included WWII I included it becuase it led directly to the establishment of Israel, among other things. (as well as the Cold war)

As for man walking on the moon- could you maybe please explain to me how that is one of the 'most important events' and why taht tops electrical generation or mongol conquests or the printing press?

Thanks!

Great discussion!

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Dissident
*cough*Vikings *cough*

Lots of people discovered America before Columbus: the Irish, the Vikings, the Phoenicians, the Japanese, the extraterrestrials. But they all successfully covered it up.

[mrmitchell]

Sorry DC. I edited in short explanations into my post afterwards

[Agathon]

The French Revolution?

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


Lots of people discovered America before Columbus: the Irish, the Vikings, the Phoenicians, the Japanese, the extraterrestrials. But they all successfully covered it up.

That scared me. Before I finished reading your post, I thought you were serious.

[mrmitchell]

Agathon that is my #11.

But after 1815 what can you say really changed? It was revolutionary yes but it didn't stick. None of the lasting power that all the other significantia have.

[Lancer]

"Lots of people discovered America before Columbus: the Irish, the Vikings, the Phoenicians, the Japanese, the extraterrestrials. But they all successfully covered it up. "

From my understanding the extraterrestrials first arrived in weather balloons.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I agree with your, DC, that the Reformation has to be #1.

I would add in the Top 10 (possible at #2):

Papal Revolution / Investiture Crisis (1073-1122) - the struggle over who gets to give bishops their regalia ended with the Pope basically having total control over Europe. Gregory VII, in this reforming era, also increased the bureaucratization of the Church (part of his new view of the Catholic Church) creating what could be called the first modern state. The victory of the Hildebrand (Gregory VII's real name) reforms under Callixtus II changed Europe forever. Without them, the Emperor would have continued to rule Christendom and who knows how the future would have turned out without a state system created by the Church which was a model to the emerging kingdoms.

Also the Crusades are pretty important .

[Agathon]

But after 1815 what can you say really changed? It was revolutionary yes but it didn't stick. None of the lasting power that all the other significantia have

It added economic equality to the list of things that people were prepared to butcher their lords and masters to secure. The American Revolution is really a revolution for formal freedom and equality rather than substantive measures.

[Dis]

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[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Agathon

But after 1815 what can you say really changed? It was revolutionary yes but it didn't stick. None of the lasting power that all the other significantia have

It added economic equality to the list of things that people were prepared to butcher their lords and masters to secure. The American Revolution is really a revolution for formal freedom and equality rather than substantive measures.

I agree with aggie.

The French Revolution is regarded by many (if not most) historians as being of greater importance than the American revloution...

[Agathon]

I agree with aggie.

See... for two seconds you were a genius.

[DanS]

I would put Sputnik and Apollo as among the top 10. Possible #1. They ushered in the Space Age, which we are now experiencing. The relative importance of these two milestones increases as more happens off Earth and people live off-Earth. Nowadays, only 2 do and there is only a small amount of activity (like Hubble, GPS, and satellite television), but within the next thousand years, I think a lot more will happen there.

Regarding the revolutions, etc., I would just lump it all in as the Enlightenment and put it near the top. Also, I would lump World War I and World War II together and put it near the top.