Pretty much agree with redneck again on this although I'd have to include The Louisiana Purchase and 9/11 on my list. With the Purchase is doubled the size of the United States. We wont know all the effects of 9/11 until 20 years from now, but it still is one of the first things that come to mind when thinking about things that change America. Depending on how the world is in 20 to 30 years, it could be the most important and life changing event in the last 100 years or so.
I left off 9/11 because its relitively new. I thought about adding the Lousiana Purchase, but I think the other 5 events are bigger.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MrBigShot_23 @ May 20 2007, 08:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Thats so not true. The US is a relatively young country and has not had much influence on the world, in the big picture.If you were to make a half hour movie about the history of the world, the time when the USA was born and now wouldnt even be a minute.</div>How very very wrong you are. The USA might be a 'young' country but the impact it has had on the World can't even be measured. As for important events of the last 1000 years, there have been some pretty good ones so far on the thread. I would also add --China's decision not to create a Worldwide empire. They had a incredible navy but decided not to explore and empire build in the 1500s.-The fall of Communism/end of Cold War-Invention of Printing Press-Columbus discovering The Americas-Invention of Dr PepperThere are hundreds that deserve a mention. The Crusades, Battle of Hastings, 100 years War etc
Wow...this thread is really going to help me when this part of my project comes up...Top 5 Most Influential EventsIt is your job to think back throughout the semester to all of the events that we have learned about and choose the five events that you believe have been the most influential to world history. You will rank these events in order.For each event you must write a one paragraph rationale (5-8 sentences) for why you chose that event to be on your list. You must have a picture for each of the events. :worthy:
I think an unsung one is Germany letting the three emperor's league expire, which may be the single biggest cause of ww1 as we know it. When you think about it, the tensions were so strong when world war one broke out that even if Archduke Ferdinand hadn't been assassinated something else would have sparked world war one. I think if Germany didn't get such a nationalistic and liberal Caprivi to let that treaty end there's no WW1.
1. Oprah was born2. Michael Jackson was born3. Michael Jordan was born4. Martin Luther King Jr was born5. The American Revolution
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (redneck @ May 20 2007, 01:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>top 5 most important events in American history.in Chronilogical order;1-Fort Mystic: the first major white-Native American battle. from then on the Natives began to lose more and more land to the whites, it also showed the whites that the Natives wouldn't united and would help the whites in defeating a common enemy.2-French and Indian War/7 year war.Not just a major American event, but also a major world event. it was the powder keg which would ignite the American Revolution. the Taxes which Parlement leavied on the colonies would piss the colonist off so bad that they'd dump tea in Boston Harbor, tar and feather tax collectors and eventually fire on the british Army itself.3-Discovery of Gold at Sutters millLead to the California gold rush, and the eventual westward rush on the Oregon, Utah, and Santa Fe trails. Its events would also lead to the Silver Rushs in Nevada, Arizona and Oregon, as well as major Gold Rushes in Alaska, Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico. It also made the US one of the richest countries on Earth.4-South Carolinas succession.After it succeed it was followed by 11 other states which formed the Confederacy. then the firing upon Fort Sumpter would spark the Civil War, the bloodiest and largest war in our nations history.5-Pearl HarborThere is a reason that December 7th is a date that lives in Imfamy. It catipolted the US into WWII and into being a world superpower.</div>What About the American revolution? that should be number 1. Without them, there wouldnt even be any America.
Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couchTom Cruise is shown to be a scientologistThrillerBritney spears becomes an ugly demon thingDENNIS RODMAN'S HAIR
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Michael Bryant @ May 23 2007, 07:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>1)Industrialization2)Immunization(sp?)3)Communication4)The f*cking airplane5)LanguageHow's that.</div>language isn't within the last thousand years and I think the airplane pales in comparison to a lot of other events. The other ones are definitely up there though.I'd also submit that, speaking of industrialization, years from now we'll be thinking of this epoch as "digitalization" and think of it as at least as important. Digitalization has taken invention to the level of exponential growth it hadn't experienced since the industrial rev; more new human created information was created in 2006 than in the entire history of the world prior to that.
Referring to American history I would probably have to include the establishment of the 13th amendment which officially ended slavery and finished the job which President Lincoln started with the Emancipation Proclamation. From what I understand the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery from most states with the exception of a few (I know Kentucky was one but I'm not sure of the rest). The abolishment of slavery led to segregation, the formation of racial extremists groups I.e. KKK, the civil rights movement, race riots, multiple assassinations, hell even affirmative action can trace its origin back to the abolishment of slavery.
Blues, Jazz, Rock, R&B, Hip Hop - Music holds the only purely American contributions to any artform.The invention of the sitcom. Desi Arnaz devised the multi-camera set up that is used to this day with an audience and a sound stage. Desilu owned the "I Love Lucy" episodes, and he is credited with inventing the rerun as well. Wikipedia. Sue me.Industrial Revolution carried such a surge of technical and innovative invention in America that is only just now abating. Eh, they say necessity is the mother of...The European Renaissance. Science and art become widely recognized as worthy grounds to pursue ideals of truth in this era.Walking on the moon. JFK said it could happen, but somebody shot him.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Jun 22 2007, 05:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>#1, 2, and 5 are relatively miniscule, and maybe rank in the top thousand or so.</div>Did you just say walking on the moon might only rank in the top 1000? I wouldn't have it top five, but it certainly is a very important event. It was a symbol more than anything and a giant one at that.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Milgod @ Jun 23 2007, 12:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Did you just say walking on the moon might only rank in the top 1000? I wouldn't have it top five, but it certainly is a very important event. It was a symbol more than anything and a giant one at that.</div>well it would probably be top 100 or so, I was just clumping the three into one statement. I just think that real things that changed the course of history and wouldn't be done by something else otherwise are a lot more important. Whose lives did landing on the moon save or take? What has it done for future generations? Has it even proved as important as something like canned food?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Truth @ Jun 23 2007, 12:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>you guys are only listing american history or just 1900s and up or 1800s and up</div>any country's history of the last thousand years
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Jun 23 2007, 01:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>well it would probably be top 100 or so, I was just clumping the three into one statement. I just think that real things that changed the course of history and wouldn't be done by something else otherwise are a lot more important. Whose lives did landing on the moon save or take? What has it done for future generations? Has it even proved as important as something like canned food?</div>I agree. I'd say top 500 is pretty accurate. I'm sure there's 100 more important events, but I'll be damned if I could list them off. I'm sure it would be in the 200's or 300's.
As of now the Moon landing probably wouldn't be very high in historical importance, what has it contributed to history thus far? some have argued that it was the begining of the end of the Soviet Union but I don't believe that personally. The US landed on the Moon a total of 4 times I believe, but haven't done so since the early 1970s. Im not saying its a nice accomplishment because it is, but nothing significant has happened because of it yet. now if suddenly everyone starts building Moon bases than yes it would be a huge event but as it stands now its basically an isolated even much like Leaf Ericksons failed colony in New Foundland. yeah it happened, but so what?
