Top 5 (or 10) events that shaped mankind?

answers can be any worldwide event... no time frame set (could be within any period).

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Top 5 (or 10) events that shaped mankind?concert venue

1.) Forging metals

2.) Emperor Constantine's adopting Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire (see Council of Nicea, Nicene Creed)

3.) The Gutenberg printing press

4.) The Wright brothers' airplane

5.) The Personal Computer

Top 5 (or 10) events that shaped mankind?events opera theater

I only can think of two.

1A) Creation of religion.

1B) Invention of the current banking system.
Good news everyone!

5.) Black plague

4.) Dark Ages

3.) Fall of the Roman Empire

2.) The formation of religions

1.) The ability to control fire
Electricity, period
Global Human Migration

Religion

European Conquests

American Democracy/Political and Social Systems

Slavery in all nations
JIBBA the GURU said the first 4

"harnessing fire"

"harnessing wheels and pulleys"

"Harnessing electricity"

"harnessing the atom"

harnessing the numerals (decimal/binary)
The development of language.

Domestication of animals

The invention of the clock

The development of navigation.

The invention of the printing press
Not necessarily in this order:

1) invention of the wheel of course

2) controlling fire

3) the development and use of atomic weapons

4) the First and Second World Wars (because one played a role in shaping Hitler, and the other was in response to his Germany)

5) the Council of Nicaea and the subsequent rise of Catholicism (and monotheism)

6) the development of the printing press

7) the development of instant long distance communication (telegraph, telephone, radio, television, etc.)

8) the events of September 11, 2001 for the paranoia they have put in most of the world's governments

9) the invention of God(s). Please, this isn't to spark outrage or argument. The point is simple, there had to be a point at which the notion entered a human mind--to explain something that could not be understood--and look at it now. Some form of a God dominats most of human life.

10) wrapped into one, the development of various means of rapid transportation: cars, planes, and powered rather than wind-blown boats.
1. Walking on 2 legs / year long mating season -- go hand in hand essentially

2. Ice Age - comes with fire control and better weapons

3. Jewish Religion (first religion known to condemn other religions) - paves the way for violent religions later

4. Empires - Roman, Brittish, etc - spread influence, regained lost knowledge from Middle East after the dark ages.

5. Electricity - opens the door to everything else technology wise.
Top inventions or discoveries:

Fire

The wheel

Agriculture

Electricity

Metalworking

Nuclear physics

Top events:

Fall of Rome

Rise of Christianity (as much as I disagree with it, its influences have widely affected the world as we know it today)

Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

The Great Plague

American independence (which sounds arrogant, but realize that if America had remained a British colony, it would not have developed into the superpower that we know today)
1. Creation, talk about something that shaped mankind.

2. Sin, that defined the future of mankind.

3. Flood, that pared mankind down to just eight people.

4. Babel, the beginning of people being separated by language.

5. Crucifixion of Jesus, the most talked about man in the history of the world has change mankind.

6. Printing press, made mass production of media.

7. Television, boy has it changed mankind.

8. Integrated Circuits, the miniaturization of electronic devices has changed mankind.

9. Nuclear energy, both power and destruction has changed mankind.

10. Computer, the most drastic change in modern mankind.

grace2u
1) Man discovers tools through manipulation of rocks and other materials of nature.

2) Man makes fire.

3) Man lears how to count and discovers Math.

4) Man creates language.

5) Man creates the first civilization with Mesopotamia.

6) Men go on conquests against other men, leading to the first wars and eventual creation of empires.

7) Scientific thought begins to take precedence over Religious Idolotry. Then we get set back technologically about 2000 years when one conquest destroys the Library at Alexandria...that was about 2000 years ago!

8) The Renaissance gives way to science and empirical thought AGAIN...and we begin to discover important facts like that Earth is NOT the center of the Universe, but that earth actually orbits the SUN...and that it's ROUND, not FLAT.

9) Civilizations begin to go from feudal systems to more of a Republic system of government...this is STILL evolving even today!

10) Industrialization and Technology begin to take leaps, with the creation of the first gas powered engines, then finally utilizing electricity, and then the discovery of the atom....whose power we learned to harness thanks to a big insight by Einstein, and directly led to understanding so many mechanics of the Universe that we've now been space travellers ever since the 1950s...with our presence noted on space probes that have already left our solar system.

These generalizations shaped us probably more than specific historic events....with the exception of the specifics mentioned.
1.Gilligans Island

2.Mission Impossible

3.The Fifteen Commandments [OT]

4.The One Great Commandment [NT]

5.The SIMPSONS
following have greatly shaped

1 harnessing fire

2 harnessing wheels and pulleys

3 harnessing electricity

4 harnessing the atom

5 harnessing sperms by Condom and pill

6 fight of Wright Brothers in Air..

7moon walk paved the way to search the space .. and also to keep watch on enemies through satellite spying, and also predicting weathers

8 world war I and II, greatly eased out the Morales as it showed that we have only so short to live and yet we need to enjoy more.. once is not enough ,,

9 Psycho analysis of Freud showed that disease could be in mind and showing on body..

10 computers and Internet brought globalization
Get my drift:

Rebellion (Spartacus accounts from 71 B.C.?)

Porn (try reading poetry by Catullus from about 50 B.C.?)

Free Love (try reading poetry by Sappho from 7 B.C.?)

Old Testament (from about 300 A.D.?)
The great flood!

God Bless!
1God created man.

2God destroyed mankind (apart from Noah and Co)

3God gave the Ten Commandments.

4God sent Jesus.

5God sent a message via Mohamed.pbuh.

I wonder who I have offended? This is R%26amp;S after all.