Rank The Top 5 Most Important Events In The History of the World

[Flying Headbutt]

Just curious what people would list them as. When you have millions of years to sift through I'd imagine we'll have a variety of items. A spinoff could be the five most important events in the history of your life, too. I haven't put mine together yet, but will later on.

 

[PeteyPirate]

5. Frank Cabrera

 

[dooley_womack1]

--The development of religion
--The invention of the firearm
--The development of written language
--The harnessing of electricity
--The creation of The Real World The development of food preservation

 

[DemoChristian]

I think you need much more specific parameters to get fair answers on this.
I mean, are we talking the five most important moments in recorded history? In human history? Does the creation/big bang count?

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

The birth of Otto Frederick Rohwedder on July. 7, 1880 in Des Moines, Iowa should be somewhere on the list.

That is if cliches have any import whatsoever.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

I think you need much more specific parameters to get fair answers on this.
I mean, are we talking the five most important moments in recorded history? In human history? Does the creation/big bang count?

Oh sure, the creation/big bang definitely counts. I'm talking the history of the world. I know it's pretty broad, but I think that's the fun of it.

 

[Precious Roy]

The death of the dinosaurs is a given, seeing that they would have kept us from evolving and all.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Huh?[/carleverett]

 

[dooley_womack1]

And is anybody else going to give an actual five?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

- The Big Bang
- Development of language as means of written and verbal communication
- Invention of the wheel
- Organized religion
- Invention of electricity

 

[Precious Roy]

I will I guess I will say that this is a "modern world" list.

Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world
The birth of Jesus Christ and the spread of Christianity
The American Revolution and the birth of the United States
The Great Depression and its effects both in the USA and across the globe
The end of World War II and the aftermath therein

 

[Double J]

1979 - Jack Blades, Brad Gillis and Kelly Keagy leave the band Rubicon and form a new trio
1980 - They and two other musicians form Night Ranger
1983 - Night Ranger releases the LP Midnight Madness which includes the future single "Sister Christian."
1984 - "Sister Christian" hits the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100
I can't think of a fifth event; everything since 1984 has been gravy

[/byh]

;D

 

[PeteyPirate]

1979 - Jack Blades, Brad Gillis and Kelly Keagy leave the band Rubicon and form a new trio
1980 - They and two other musicians form Night Ranger
1983 - Night Ranger releases the LP Midnight Madness which includes the future single "Sister Christian."
1984 - "Sister Christian" hits the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100
I can't think of a fifth event; everything since 1984 has been gravy

[/byh]

;D

1997 -- "Sister Christian" resurges as the backbone of an otherwise-forgotten film, Boogie Nights

 

[Boom_70]

Intereting question FHB

In no particuliar order

1 Birth of Jesus Christ
2 invention of the wheel
3 invention of electricity
4 creation of the alpahbet and written word
5 invention of computer / silcon chip / windows software

 

[albert77]

I'll take a serious stab at this:

1. The life and death of Christ. Regardless of whether or not you believe he is the Son of God, the religion his followers created completely changed the world.

2. The invention of the wheel. Circular technology is so much a part of man's lives in big ways and small ways that we often can't grasp its importance.

3. The invention of the printing press. Until Gutenburg, literacy was a skill few were able to master and books were a rare and precious thing. All mass communications flows out of the movable type.

4. The conquests of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. The first created a bridge that spread Western culture through the known world, the second created a bridge that spread Eastern culture in the opposite direction.

5. The development of satellite communications. So much of how we communicate today would have been unthinkable just 50 years ago.

 

[HejiraHenry]

4 creation of the alpahbet and written word

Worth the price of admission, right there.

 

[Double J]

Intereting question FHB

In no particuliar order

1 Birth of Jesus Christ
2 invention of the wheel
3 invention of electricity
4 creation of the alpahbet and written word
5 invention of computer / silcon chip / windows software

And that's just one of four spelling errors - in a post that has only 32 words.

EDIT: Henry beat me to it.

 

[DanOregon]

Dools took all the good ones - though when you think about it, many people were involved in the development of different technologies. And religion is a no-brainer. No matter the faith - many of humanity's greatest leaps forward (and backward) have been inspired by by various religions.

I'll try with most momentous "coin flip" events in my lifetime.

- Soviets invade Afghanistan (leading to demise of the Soviet bloc and spread of mid-east terrorism)
- Security guard discovers Watergate break-in (helped define U.S. politics and gave rise to conservative mistrust of news media.
- Cable television (probably not a coin-flip) splintered the media market, lead to loss of a collective national consciousness.
- The internet (see above).
- Roe v. Wade (though since its a 7-2 decision it hardly qualifies as a coin-flip) re-set the political landscape.

 

[CA_journo]

Tebow's birth
Creation of the world/big bang
Creation of fire
Creation of the wheel
Creation of the printing press

Was tempted to put United States' independence from the British

 

[amraeder]

Big Bang
First creature walks on land
Death of the dinosaurs
Man develops agriculture
Industrial Revolution

(Feel good about the first four. The fifth was a struggle. Thought long and hard about movable type and iron working before going Industrial Revolution. Fire/wheel also got some consideration.)