most important event in human history

[pres2032]

Poll question: most important event in human history

this is just a start, feel free to add your own thoughts as what you consider the most important event in human history.

[Brucey]

1. Other

Invention of printing press.

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. moon landing

[JVS]

4. Most impressive yeah, but I doubt life would be much different if we'd...

have said "aw screw it" and been content with satellites

[7th_Sephiroth]

11. the invention of da nuke then

[JVS]

13. fair enough

[Dead_Parrot]

3. Invention of the wheel...

...Fire was a close 2nd.

[HEyHEY]

5. One of those is debatable as even happening

I'd say the discovery of fire, or the wheel.

Or the Europeans discovering North America

[JVS]

9. Invention of Poutine

[HEyHEY]

15. It DID give countless people heart attacks for population control

[JVS]

18. One could argue that it was devastating enough to the Quebecers to...

prevent them from gaining independence.


FLQ!

[RoeBear]

22. Poon tang?

Or is that something else you are referring to?

[RoeBear]

42. Serioulsy ...

what is Poutine?

[JVS]

44. link here

http://www.thumper.net/tlkmag/archive/fun/poutine/

[DS1]

6. Birth of Mathematics

[JVS]

8. Closely followed by the Death of Mathematics

[MrScorpio]

7. The invention of oral sex

We couldn't have had any of that other stuff without it.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

25. No fair, that's not in human history

We were going down on each other as apes, too, I'm afraid.

[terrya]

10. The invention of television.

Think of how life has changed since television was invented.

[UrbScotty]

12. The resurrection of Jesus

Of course, that's the Christian in me talking.

[pres2032]

16. yeah, same here

i'm lumping that with the crucifixion

[JohnKleeb]

26. I'd say the birth honestly

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

28. Isn't "history" only things that happened?

Oh, that's the atheist in me talking.

[JohnKleeb]

39. thats your choice, you can believe that happened or not

[BBradley]

46. Bah, to the lions with you.

[tjwmason]

49. Whether or not one's a Christian

The ethic of Christianity pervades the basis of western society; and has served to shape the world directly and immensely.

As a Christian I also believe that it has much more far reaching consequences.

[rawtribe]

14. Global warming

:nuke:

[baldguy]

17. Agriculture

[Vincardog]

19. The invention of abstract thought

This event is marked by the ART on the caves and Petroglyph's. Homo Sapient existed several hundred thousand yours before they actually made a habit of thinking.
You know conceiving of something that does not exist and willing it into reality.

[name not needed]

20. Invention of porn

:D

[JohnKleeb]

24. Why did I think you would say that

[name not needed]

30. Actually, I'm thinking of something even more important

the discovery of marijuana

[JohnKleeb]

40. aye sir-

[St. Jarvitude]

41. It's not just us

Monkeys Pay For Monkey Porn

A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey's bottoms. The way the experiment was set up, the act is akin to paying for the images, the researchers say.

The rhesus macaque monkeys also splurged on photos of top-dog counterparts, the high-ranking primates. Maybe that's like you or me buying People magazine.

...

The scientists actually had to pay these guys, in the form of extra juice, to get them to look at images of lower-ranking monkeys.

Curiously, the monkeys in the test hadn't had any direct physical contact with the monkeys in the photos, so they didn't have personal experience with who was hot and who was not.

[bettyellen]

50. and when the juice ran out........

[iamjoy]

21. Written Language

without which, we would not have "recorded history" and we wouldn't really know about anything else. Of course, maybe that's not really an event since written language evolved over millenia.

Interesting bit of trivia - written history goes back roughly 6,000 years. Fundamentalists believe the earth is roughly 6,000 years old. Coincidence?

[Fridays Child]

29. This is it. And it coincides with the demise of the Goddess/ascendance...

...of patriarchy.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

23. I have to go with 1492

Bringing the two worlds together--it had the farthest-reaching effects of anything that ever happened in recorded times.

I don't think prehistory (wheel, fire) counts as part of history.

[norml]

27. The invention of writing.

http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test4materials/Writing2.htm The invention of writing

It is virtually certain that writing developed on the basis of earlier existing pictographs and ideographs. Modern humans seem to have begun drawing pictures 40,000 years ago (San in SW Africa, Australian Aborigines, Cro Magnon in southwest Europe). True writing is thought to have been invented independently at least twice and perhaps three times in different places and times in human history: in ancient Sumeria by 3200BC--where a type of writing called cuneiform developed; and in ancient Mexico by the Olmecs before 400BC--the precursor to the Maya glyphs (used 200--1500AD). Writing may have been invented a third time independently: North China by 1200BC--the precursor of modern Chinese characters; In each of these three instances, it is believed that pictures began to be used to denote syllables of sound, not meaning alone. Today we will discuss these first syllabic systems in some detail. All of them are mixtures of pictograpic word-symbols and symbols for the sound of syllables.

Let's look at the development of writing in Sumeria first. The Sumerians were a people who built a series of city states in the delta of the Tigres and Euphrates rivers after 3500BC. Their language was not IE or Semitic and is not known to be related to any other language. We do know that the Sumerians developed a writing system known today as cuneiform. It flourished between 3100 and 2000BC. Although it fell into disuse after this time, scholars succeeded in deciphering it last century and today we can read all of the many thousands of surviving cuneiform inscriptions.

Writing in Southwest Asia--the earliest anywhere-- seems to have developed out of economic expediency. The earliest uses of pictograms in Mesopotamia--pre-writing-- predated the Sumerians. Beginning with farming some 9000 years ago, tokens marked with simple pictures began to be used to label basic farm produce. With the rise of cities and urban centers of manufacture 6000 years ago, more complex pictographic tokens were also devised to label manufactured goods. Eventually, the tokens were replaced by impressions made on clay tablets. The simple tokens used to denote farm goods gave rise to the practice of pressing tokens into the clay tablets to produce a raised picture; the complex tokens used to denote manufactured goods were drawn on the clay tablets with a blunt reed called a stylus. The impressions left by the stylus were wedge shaped, thus giving rise to the name cuneiform, wedge-writing.

http://www.ayun.net/nomadik/sites/invention/

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

35. Writing was invented before history began

History began immediately thereafter. So technically it is not a historical event.

[norml]

38. The invention of writing isn't an historical event?

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I wonder if the people who put together these web sites know about that?

[Allenberg]

31. The North winning the Civil War.

[WilliamPitt]

32. The printing of the Gutenberg Bible

and the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment.

One could also argue for Luther and the nailing of the 95 theses to the church door. We are still feeling the echo of the pounding of his nail.

[jus_the_facts]

33. The implementation of The New Deal.....

....s'the only time in *modern* human history there was ever a semblance of a *true democracy* :nopity:

[pres2032]

34. i thought the ancient greeks came pretty close to achieving that

[greendog]

36. the multi-shareholder limited liability corporation...

...organized irresponsibility.

[nevergiveup]

37. Continental Drift

I guess maybe since this took 200 million years it wouldn't be considered an event.......how about the "Black Plague"....one out of every three folks in Europe died or maybe.......the invention of the first condom or whatever the first birth control was......sorry, I can't seem to make up my mind.

[Nikia]

43. Most, if not all of the others, would not have happened without the first

Before humans used fire, we as a species were much more limited. Fire helped us gain control over our environment in many ways and allowed us to spread throughout the world.

[Gemini Cat]

45. Besides my birth? The wheel.

Followed by fire and mathematics.

[KittyWampus]

47. Language, Writing & Numbers... Followed By Agriculture

[CanuckAmok]

48. The pull-tab.

Before then, primitive man had to smash cans of cling peaches against rocks to extract the nutrients, and many starved to death in the process.