Top Ten Most Significant Events of The Last 1000 Years

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Not really.

We can't leave the solar system before we make the first step.

[Sir Og]

Az's list

Also the printing press gets too much attention IMO. It sure is important but it could be argued that radio for example or TV ar just as important. This is just one example of a mass production advance.
Also all the Apolos should be replaced by something more appropriate eg. Sputnik, Gagarin.

[notyoueither]

Sputnik is part of the process that led to Apollo and the moon landing.

Call it the space race if you will.

[Vince278]

The space race was politics.

[notyoueither]

Well, that beep, beep, beep, sure kicked the US space program in the butt and into shape. So call it what you will, but it is more than a day, or a landing. It was the culmination of a process that began with German rocketry, if not before.

[Sir Og]

If you want to single out an event however it makes more sence to choose the first event not some so called pinnacle that would never have happened had it not been for the first event that triggered the race.

[Vince278]

Before. With Goddard.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Sir Og
If you want to single out an event however it makes more sence to choose the first event not some so called pinnacle that would never have happened had it not been for the first event that triggered the race.

Then that first event would be a chemistry experiment in a cabbage patch in the US in 1926, or in clubs in Germany in the 1930's.

[Sir Og]

No. We should even go back to China!

[Sir Og]

NYE you have correctly pointed out that it would be more correct to wse the "space race" for the purposes of this list.

Space race IMO is:

-first man made object in space - Sputnik (SU)
-first man in space - Gagarin - Gagarin (SU)
-first man in open space - (SU)
-first man made object on another "planet" - (SU)
-first man on another "planet" - Apolo (USA)
-first space station - (SU)

Having this in mind it just seems not right to single out Apolo as the most important part of the space race.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Sir Og
No. We should even go back to China!

No, Sputnik had more to do with it than that. I'm just saying that Sputnik was not the beginning of it in the direct process that led to manned space flight, and it wasn't the culmination either.

It was important, and certainly was a point of pride for those who did it, but it doesn't define the age like Apollo 11 did.

[Sir Og]

Originally posted by notyoueither


It was important, and certainly was a point of pride for those who did it, but it doesn't define the age like Apollo 11 did.

For me Gagarin defines the space age. And so it does for millions of other people around the world.

I can not expect the people in America to place Gagarin before Armstrong considering the uncomparable amount of coverage in your media that the two events got. And since Gagarin was before Armstrong I think he should make the list.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Sir Og
NYE you have correctly pointed out that it would be more correct to wse the "space race" for the purposes of this list.

Space race IMO is:

-first man made object in space - Sputnik (SU)

Actually, no. A V2 went 173 km up in 1946. And then the Russians tested some rockets prior to Sputnik. Sputnik was the first in orbit though. And it did beep.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Sir Og


For me Gagarin defines the space age. And so it does for millions of other people around the world.

I can understand that even if I don't agree.

[BeBMan]

IMO the crusades (into the ME) as isolated events weren't that significant, after all the conquests in the ME were lost within less than 200 years, but I would put them into a bigger development which basically created Europe as an entity with a certain political, cultural and religious background (not geographically of course ): Expansion of Latin christianity, esp. during the 11-13th century with conquest, conversion and colonization, in a quasi alliance of the church, military aristocracy and others (or at least with common interests in many fields). The reconquista belongs to that process as well as other things, for example the creation of christian kingsdoms in northern or eastern Europe.

Similar the rise of Islam (yes, I know it does not fit exactly into the "last 1000 years" category since it started much earlier, but just for the record ).