Most Important Event in History

[Dancingman]

the creation of the written word in ancient Babylon.

Cnueform? i think it's called.

Cuneiform

All ancient civilizations contributed something of import, ancient China, ancient Mesopotamia, you name it.

I personally believe that it was the Bubonic Plague era and the Crusades, the former for inspiring several inventions (like the printing press, which came just in time for the Reformation) and the latter for starting the Age of Exploration and launching Europe as a world power.

 

[Fingolfin High-King of the Noldor]

The day the Earth was created.

 

[Hydro Imp]

Also, all those people saying "creation", you're asking for this: There was no creation. The world, and humans, developed and came into existence through natural means. This is fact.

okay,i admit it, from fish to amphibian,amphibian to lizard,but that's where it stops. mammals came on their own,from another branch of DNA,but i wanna say that monkeys didn't come from another mammal. monkeys then gained this or that adaptation,and then millions of years later, became humans. but god did it. he made that dust particle go to another,and then they kept going into a planet,gave it an atmosphere,made the sea,the air,the creatures. he did it all.

All the available evidence shows pretty clearly that mammals evolved from reptiles over a space of about 70 million years ago, culminating about 125 million years ago with the first marsupial, from which point mammals existed. Monkeys are a specific group of species of primates. Primates have also been clearly shown to evolve from other mammals. Just as humans, primates ourselves, evolved from earlier primates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_mammals

Don't trust wiki? Go there and read its source material.

Now, where's your evidence that refutes the data? Oh, I'd also like evidence for your assertion that god did it all.

Who/what started the Big Bang, or whatever else created the universe?
As for on topic, I belive the single most important event in the history of anything is probably sentient thought

 

[Issalius]

the first baked cookie

 

[Hydro Imp]

The Battle of Tours during the Middle Ages actually prevented the ENTIRE world from becoming Muslim. It was won by Charlemagne and a small militia force vs. the Moors, or Muslims, and their large army.

What would be wrong with the world just having one religion? There would be no religous wars, or a lot less religous wars at least

 

[Cronorod]

The Battle of Tours during the Middle Ages actually prevented the ENTIRE world from becoming Muslim. It was won by Charlemagne and a small militia force vs. the Moors, or Muslims, and their large army.

What would be wrong with the world just having one religion? There would be no religous wars, or a lot less religous wars at least

Depends on the religion really.

As for important events: The failure of the Athenian invasion of Sicily (more specifically, debatably, the removal of Alcibiades from command)
Pyrrhus' "Pyrrhic victory" at Ascalum
The fall of Syracuse to Rome, (and thus, the death of Archimedes)
The destruction of the library of Alexandria

 

[historybuff]

Well, probably the Industrial Revolution is extremely important. There were huge changes in the way we live because of that.

 

[skcseth]

Sliced Bread
Raptor Jesus
The Numa Numa guy

Amen good sir.

I'd say the breaking down of the Berlin Wall.
Or the invention of the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell FTW!!

 

[Vek]

I kind of skipped through the thread, but I'd list them like this:

1) Man lands on the moon.

2) Operation Overlord/D-Day.

3) Invention of Transistor

4) Man leaves Earth for the first time

6) first splitting of an atom

7) Invention of the Radio

9) Invention of the printing press

10)First manned, powered flight.

 

[BaronAsh]

Big Bang?

 

[Smashking]

My birth.

 

[mdk31]

Also, all those people saying "creation", you're asking for this: There was no creation. The world, and humans, developed and came into existence through natural means. This is fact.

okay,i admit it, from fish to amphibian,amphibian to lizard,but that's where it stops. mammals came on their own,from another branch of DNA,but i wanna say that monkeys didn't come from another mammal. monkeys then gained this or that adaptation,and then millions of years later, became humans. but god did it. he made that dust particle go to another,and then they kept going into a planet,gave it an atmosphere,made the sea,the air,the creatures. he did it all.

All the available evidence shows pretty clearly that mammals evolved from reptiles over a space of about 70 million years ago, culminating about 125 million years ago with the first marsupial, from which point mammals existed. Monkeys are a specific group of species of primates. Primates have also been clearly shown to evolve from other mammals. Just as humans, primates ourselves, evolved from earlier primates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_mammals

Don't trust wiki? Go there and read its source material.

Now, where's your evidence that refutes the data? Oh, I'd also like evidence for your assertion that god did it all.

Who/what started the Big Bang, or whatever else created the universe?
As for on topic, I belive the single most important event in the history of anything is probably sentient thought

We don't yet know. No, that doesn't logically default to "goddidit".

 

[LordCraigus]

Big Bang.

 

[Leorex]

i beleave it would be the creation of life.

History numb-nuts, not fiction.

whether you believe it was random or god did it life happened.

 

[LeeHarveyO]

The industrial revolutions, and probably the fall of Rome.

 

[Zildjin81]

The discovery of metal I guess.

 

[RebelRising]

Creation.

Are we including Pre-history, though?

 

[hannarr]

The day those few families of early humans made it out of Africa...and then proceeded to populate the entire world

 

[nova18]

1. Finding the monolith.
2. When Xenu deposited the souls of aliens onto Earth.
3. Someone telling Adolf that his paintings werent good enough and that he should find another job.


[small][small]Note: Only 1 of those is real.[/small][/small]