If you had to list the top 15 most important people in history, who would you choose, and where would they rank? Also, how would you define importance?
I personally would say importance in this context is based mainly on influence and the scope of one's achievements or discoveries. My list would look something like this: 1. Muhammad 2. Isaac Newton 3. Jesus Christ 4. Christopher Columbus 5. Aristotle 6. Alexander the Great 7. Qin Shi Huang 8. Gautama Buddha 9. George Washington 10. Charles Darwin 11. Cai Lun (invented paper) 12. John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev (tied for bringing the world the closest to M.A.D. it's ever been) 13. Johannes Gutenberg 14. Thomas Jefferson 15. Constantinople
Let's see how much everyone's lists vary.
Ryan Rodriguez
The most important person in human history was an early homo sapiens from 150 000 years ago who did something. Had he done differently it would have completely changed the course of human history due to the butterfly effect.
Hudson Cox
Zoras Moses (same person?) Caesar Christ (same person?) Edward VII Hitler etc
Hunter Roberts
Might as well be the one to get it out of the way, why Muhammad over Jesus?
Aaron Perez
>Constantinople Do you mean Constanine?
Jace Adams
>The only Roman in this list is Constantine.
Jackson Adams
Donald Trump Barrack Obama God Jesus Satan Mao Zedong Cleopatra Dr. Seuss Bill Nye the Science Guy Siddhartha Gautama Martin Luther King Hitler Karl Marx Alexander Graham Bell Stephanie Meyer
Elijah Jackson
>On top of that, the only Roman in this list is the last ranked, behind fucking Thomas Jefferson.
Lucas Roberts
Lol @ Muhammad being above Aristotle
Jaxon Wood
I think you mean Muhammad Ali.
Eli Evans
>Costantinople
John Lopez
>constantinople
Austin Ross
Genghis Khan had a greater impact than even Alexander the Great.
Adrian Hughes
>Muhammad above Jesus, who he basically ripped off Mudshit fuck off
Wyatt Jackson
>and the scope of one's achievements or discoveries Leave that out. If their actions had no influence then they weren't important. Simple as that. Importance is literally another way of saying influence.
I'm not sure how important Alexander was. Yeah he brought the Persians to their knees, but then again their empire was in decline anyway. The people generally welcomed Alexander and didn't mind the change of leadership. I wouldn't say it would be far fetched to guess that Persia might have crumbled on itself from infighting. And that's exactly what Alexanders empire did, anyway. He failed to combine the cultures of East and West and thusly his influence wasn't all that huge on future.
Also rofl @ >15. Constantinople
Cooper Harris
>Constantinople >George Washington >John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev >Thomas Jefferson God I laughed
Cooper Anderson
1. Charlemagne 2. Napoleon Bonaparte 3. Louis the Pious 4. Louis the Sun King 5. Napoleon III 6. Henri IV 7. Charles de Gaulle 8. Phillipe Petain 9. Nicholas Sarkozy 10. Georges Clemenceau 11. Ferdinand Foch 12. Marshal Michel Ney 13. Clovis the Frank 14. My Dad 15. William the Conqueror
Christian Allen
>people >lists Constantinople
??
Charles Harris
It's not just about bringing down the Persians, it's how far and wide he spread the Helllenic culture across the middle east, influencing the land socially for centuries to come. Not only that, when his fragile empire fell apart it turned the middle east into a giant power struggle between his generals that would weaken them all and pave the way for the Romans to rise to prominence later. One could argue that if somehow Alexander's empire hadn't fractuted, the Romans may not have stretched so deeply into the east ad they did.
Carson King
1. Jesus Christ 2. Muhammad 3. Siddhartha Gautama 4. Alexander the Great 5. Genghis Khan 6. Charlemagne 7. Ferdinand II of Aragon 8. William the Conqueror 9. Albert Einstein 10. Sir Isaac Newton 11. Thomas Paine 12. Adolf Hitler 13. Mao Zedong 14. Ramses the Great 15. Yuri Gagarin
So many people come to mind... the above are just a few I could name
I even thought about people such as Ebenezer Cobb Morley, who few will have heard of but who was the father of the Football Association in England. He has directly affected the lives of billions, not through war or conquest or religion, but through the simple pastime of kicking a ball around a field. A very difficult question to answer, OP.
Chase Perry
>Y-Chromosomal Adam >The leader of the small band of Homo sapiens who suggested travelling a little bit further North, through the jungle we now know as the Sahara Desert... >The man who first suggested raising a wolf cub...
Christopher Taylor
>1. Muhammad
Anthony Bailey
Cyrus >all these shitty little desert tribes, like those monotheistic jew weirdos, will be less inclined to revolt if I un-diaspora them >oh hey wow look at that their culture didn't die out thanks to my actions
Samuel Stewart
I like Napoleon but idk why you'd put him on that list
Jordan Peterson
Looks like French nationalism is on the rise again.
Jacob Cruz
And don't forget Mu-'no ham'-mad is at the top
Angel Brown
>Muhammad
Joseph Williams
A list of most important people is a bit difficult, but my list based on general achievements and influence with a bit of favoritism is: 1. Genghis Khan 2. The Prophet Mu-"no ham"-med 3. Julius Caesar 4. Stalin 5. Hitler 6. Peter the Great 7. Charlemagne 8. Napoleon Bonaparte 9. Alexander the Great 10. Mao Zedung 11. Suleyman The Magnificent 12. Louis the Sun King 13. William The Conquerer 14. Pope Urbin II 15. Cyrus The Great
Nolan Cox
From a Christian pov: 1. Jesus 2. Adam 3. Eve 4. Abraham 5. Moses 6. David 7. Isaiah 8. Ezekiel 9. Daniel 10. Matthew 11. Peter 12. John the Beloved 13. Luke 14. John Mark 15. Paul 16. Mary 17. Job 18. Solomon 19. Noah 20. Thomas
Jack Lopez
>constantinople
Sebastian Gray
>Includes Muhammad and Pope Urban II >Doesn't include Jesus, himself
Are you actually retarded?
Brandon Reed
is this what the average millennial actually believes?
Aiden Walker
>adam higher than eve
Joseph Hernandez
jesus didn't exist though
Nathan Sullivan
Neither did Muhammad
Nathaniel Ross
1. Jesus Christ 2. Ronald Reagan 3. TIE: Donald Trump, George Washington 5. Richard Nixon 6. Stephen Molyneux 7. Barry Goldwater 8. Abraham Lincoln 9. Adam Smith 10. George HW Bush 11. George W Bush 12. Teddy Roosevelt 13. Andrew Jackson 14. William Jennings Bryan 15. Calvin Coolige
Jason Brown
Listing 15 is stupid, just do 5 and put some thought into it.
1) Jesus Christ/Mohammed/Siddhartha - I don't think separate lines are necessary for the founders of these religions.
2) Genghis Khan
3) Otto von Bismarck [German unification -> WW1 -> WW2 -> Present day Europe]
4) Napoleon Bonaparte
5) Julius Caesar
Dylan Jackson
Don't you mean Alexandria?
Isaiah Long
>mfw only two people in this thread even listed Cyrus the Great >one of them ranked him last
Christopher Howard
Cyrus the Great. He put the Jews back into judea/palestine after which they started their religion again and brought us Christianity and Islam.
Josiah Jackson
>literal fucking who >important
Thomas Howard
1) First Being To Have A Conscious Thought 2) Jesus Christ/Moses/Muhammad 3) Augustus Caesar 4) Frederick Barbarossa 5) Genghis Khan 6) Ranjit Singh 7) Mansa Musa 8) Martin Luther 9) The First Buddha 10) Thomas Paine/Edmund Burke 11) Hitler/Churchill
Cameron Watson
>literal
Connor Baker
Darth Vader Emperor Palpatine Luke Skywalker Batman Superman Captain America MacGyver Professor Xavier Optimus Prime Megatron Jesus Christ Moses George Washington Metallica Neo
Xavier Davis
Good list
Ethan Long
Don't forget Phillipe le Bel and Phillipe Auguste
Ayden Johnson
Literally created the modern world. Code Napoleon was the basis of law that overturned feudal law, and with his military expertise, brought the next age of civilisation to the world. Sort of a second Augustus.
Bentley Hernandez
>t. muslim Why the Hell do you put Moe so high up? How cucked are you?
Camden Kelly
Any list without Karl Marx on it is wrong
Dominic Anderson
>Most Important People in History 1. Me ... ... ... POWER GAP ... ... ... 2. Jesus 3. Alexander the Great 4. Cao Cao 5. Deng Xiaoping
Jace Campbell
what about your mommy and daddy
Isaac Reed
Their sole purpose was to bring me into existence. They're useless now.
Carson Sanders
The best list, thread is literally over.
Sebastian Powell
>Leonado da Vinci
Biggest fucking meme going
John Watson
Jesus Christ Eve Adam Charlemagne Muhammad Genghis Khan Aristotle st. Paul Napoleon Augustus Louis XIV Bismark Alexander the Great Hitler Peter the Great
William Foster
The first guy who tried burying a seed
Carson Roberts
agriculture began independently in several place around the world. there would at minimum have to be 5 or 6 of these guys
William Carter
Genghis Khan. He knew no color or creed. He just knew that everyone under the eternal blue sky works for something.
Charles Turner
Without Scipio and Fabius, Rome would have probably been fucked much earlier.
Nolan Harris
And we will never knows their names. I know I wouldn't be smart enough to figure it out.
Same goes for the dudes who discovered how to make fire. "The secret is to bang the rocks together guys"
Brody Collins
And without Charles Martel, Arabs would have probably continued steamrolling Europe.
Ayden Rogers
>Charles Martel literally a meme figure Reminder that the Byzantines had to put up with hundreds of thousands of Arabs when Constantinople was attacked by Arabs compared to the raiding party at Tours at the same timeframe