Top Ten Most Significant Events of The Last 1000 Years

[Urban Ranger]

The Crusades led to the downfall of the aristocracy, paving the way for the rise of the Middle Class (capitalists).

[BeBMan]

Hm but the aristocracy was still the political elite (and sometimes also the military elite) in most big Euro countries over the 18th or even 19th century.

[techumseh]

1. Fire
2. Language
3. Domestication
4. Smelting
5. Sailing
6. Printing
7. Steam Engine
8. Socialism
9. Internet
10. Environmentalism

Only a combination of the last three will save human existence.

[Frozzy]

In no particular order

- American Revolution
- Russian Revolution
- German Unification
- Plague enters Sicily
- Constantinople falls to the Muslims
- Reformation
- Berlin Wall falls
- Pearl Harbour
- Waterloo
- French Revolution

[Vince278]

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)
-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.

Sigh. Lets not forget Laika.

[Sir Og]

I was mainly focusing on man's acheivemnts in space.

Speaking of animals what was the name of the chimp that the US sent in space.

[alva]

1) Man walks on the Moon
The pinnacle of human achievement, and undeniably what will be most significant to the next millenium.

Hmm, I think what will be remembered of tis episode in a thousand year is Gagarin and not the first man on the moon which is only an extension IMO(a great achievement nonetheless).

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
The Sci Method can fall under the Protestant Reformation since the thought processes could be said to have arisen from there... though Sir Francis Bacon was Catholic... ...

Urm, you mean the Scientific Method of observation and collection of data which had been known to Judaeo-Islamic science and Hispano-Moorish science ?


Oh, and to Italian, French and Spanish Catholic scientists too.

Bacon was an Anglican, by the way.

[Kidlicious]

It's interesting to see people's lists. It shows their perspective.

[Kidlicious]

Come on guys. The major events of history were not nations trying to see who had the biggest collective penis. Apollo and Sputnik


(not in order)

-Nationalism
-Individualism
-The Renaissance
-Middle Class
-Progressivism
-Civil Rights Movement
-Anti-Colonialism
-Women's Movement
-Labor Movement
-Capitalism

[molly bloom]

The Fall of Byzantium- it gave a huge impetus to finding other ways of getting highly prized spices and luxury goods from Africa, India and China/Japan to the growing western nations of Portugal, Spain, France and England, and of course the Netherlands when they threw off the Spanish yoke.


It also meant the eventual eclipse of Venice, despite her privileged trading role with the Ottoman Empire, as now states would get their commodities and foodstuffs directly rather than rely on Italian middlemen.


The adoption of Hindu/Arabic numerals by the West is highly important too, so let's all give a cheer to Bhaskar, Fibonacci and his trading partners in Islamic North Africa:

'Liber Abaci' (Book of the Abacus) by Fibonacci (1170-1250):

"The nine Indian numerals are: 1,2, 3 (et cetera)...with these nine and with the sign 0 which in Arabic is sifr, any desired number can be written. "

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Come on guys. The major events of history were not nations trying to see who had the biggest collective penis. Apollo and Sputnik

Idiots

The reason Apollo/Sputnik are important is because eventually a lot of people will be living off this rock, and these events are like Columbus' discovery of the Americas, to the colonization of space.

[Az]

Kuci

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
eventually a lot of people will be living off this rock

Even if that becomes a reality, who cares? So we live on the moon someday. Why would the moon be better?

[Kuciwalker]

The point is, they WOULDN'T BE ON THE MOON - a significant part of their lives, to be sure - if we hadn't gone to the moon.