What have been the top 3 most important moments in human history?

Everything before 1776 was a mistake

1. British surrender at Yorktown
2. Krauts and japs getting completely BTFO
3. Internet

>3. Constantine baptised (legitimizing Christianity)
this has to go, if christianity never existed some other organized religion would just take its place, it is just a meme with only superficial significance in the material world

>Everything before 1776 was a mistake
Why so?

Another religion would take its place, surely, but would the world be affected in the same way with this new religion as with Christianity? Would the papal states still develop, eventually influencing the growth of empire after empire, from Charlemagne to the Reich? Would Martin Luther still protest this new church? And how would this new religion affect the format of mediaeval feudalism? Maybe not at all, maybe entirely. It's interesting to consider.

The US wasn't founded. Rome is the only exception.

Neolithic Revolution
Rise of Islam
Commercial Revolution during the High Middle Ages in Europe

>americans thinking they're important
>americans thinking they're not stupid

>being this assblasted

1. The invention of centralized banking
2. The fall of Nazi Germany
3. The creation of Israel

King Wiwu Zing II dying after falling down a staircase in the year 447 AHW.

>if christianity never existed some other organized religion would just take its place, it is just a meme with only superficial significance in the material world
>Say it with sellenic and other pagan existed more than thousands years old.
Although Constantine baptised is wrong since Christianity spread so big already, it's only a matter of time.
1. Creation of Christian
2. Discovery of America
3. Age of Revolution

Mongol Empire wrecking Islam

Discovery of the New World

WW1

>tfw everyone giving arbitrary events

Yorktown? Christianity? Israel? The fall of nazi germany? Come on guys step it up. Here's some actual important historic events (so not pre historic like some of you fags who suggested agriculture)

> invention of writing

>"discovery" of how electricity works

> "invention" of philosophy

Those three happenings completely changed the world for humans like no other. Writing for all obvious reasons, electricity because it's the modern equivalent of the "discovery" of fire, "invention" of philosophy because we owe (almost) everything, be it directly or indirectly, to philosophy. On Metaphysical level those are probably the most important events in history.

Creation of Adam
Ressurection of Jesus
The First Crusade

Agriculture > Philosophy

Because OP asked for moments, dumbass. You're giving processes that took centuries.

October revolution.

OY

Argicultre is prehistory

Define "moment". The invention of writing was literally a random guy who decided to draw a symbol and giving it meaning in a single "moment". The invention of philosophy and electricity could be pinned to specific "moments" if you want, it was the development that took/takes ages. That's the whole reason why they are the most important "moment".

1.Collapse of the Bronze Age - Over the course of about 50 years or so, the largest and most powerful societies that had yet existed in history collapsed horribly. Every major city in the region, from Troy to Gaza laid completely depopulated, never to be resettled. Many attribute this to foreign invaders or "Sea People", but there's just as much evidence that it was caused by a series of massive earthquakes erupting along a fault line which would have devastated those urban areas. It also seems exceedingly likely that iron metallurgy played a role, as the Bronze age societies were crude, top-heavy despotisms whose power rested in the hands of a warrior-elite class, who wore a fantastically expensive bronze panoply and drove a chariot into battle

Previously discarded as junk metal, once people could build forges hot enough to work it they discovered that while iron equipment couldn't be made quite as good as bronze it was good enough, and unlike bronze which was dependent on far flung tin mines, iron was plentiful. You didn't have to be the 12th century BC equivalent of a fighter pilot in order to afford your own little hunk of iron, which most of the time you used as a plow-shear but when the warring season came you could beat into a decent, durable weapon. You might even have enough to make a helmet, which would dramatically improve your chances of survival in the melee and you didn't need to spend a lifetime collecting boar tusks in order to get one

All this had the effect of "democratizing" violence. Battles were no longer being waged with elite charioteers but with massed commoner armies. Power bases shifted away from the economy which had sprung up around the bronze trade, and allowed for ones which sprung up around the human trade: iron made chains, shackles, and cages all the more easy to mass produce and use to force large numbers of people to work your farms, your mines, etc. All of this took place in the aftermath of the Bronze Age collapse

2.The Assassination of Julius Caesar - Classical western civilization's last real attempt to reform itself from within, which also marked the end of its primary expansion phase. Classical westerners, in these times Romans, saw themselves as the greatest society that would ever exist, the best possible social arrangement, and that the reason why things were bad in their present day was because society had deviated from the old ways. They believed themselves to be living in an age of degeneracy and moral decay. The myths surrounding the long lost warrior-elite class of old formed an important component of these beliefs. Julius Caesar was a populist who sought to reverse Rome's woes through a massive civic works and capital redistribution, as well as an attempt to control the number of slaves in the name of preserving jobs for Romans. Hardliners (rightfully) saw this as a threat to their power base, and thought that by murdering him they would be removing the tyrant, the source of society's problems, and life would go back to the way it was in the golden age and their society would be preserved for posterity

Instead, all it did was utterly shatter the public's trust in the government and lead to a hostile take over by the military, which drove out and hunted down the hardliners and instituted a military autocracy masquerading as a democracy, and capital starved Romans finally had a government with the political will to embark on those very public works projects that Julius Caesar himself envisioned, but with institutionalized violence as its precedent for declaring new emperors. Good emperors left meritorious successors but over time these power squabbles over succession would break out into endless civil wars which devastated the economy, disrupted trade, and lead to the final collapse of classical western culture as they spent all kinds of money on the military and had no one left to use it on but their creditors. i.e other Romans.

French Revolution
WW2
Moon landing

3. Christopher Columbus's discovery of the new world - before 1492 Europe was still a feuding rural backwater by global standards. After 1492, European powers realized all that technology they developed feuding with each other could be turned on primitives who are sitting on top of natural resources that could be used to make and/or buy better weapons to crush their enemies back home. And so, half the world was wiped away by European diseases, its lands colonized by Europeans, and the other half gradually converted into an easily exploitable labor force. The driving spark for this global event known as colonialism was first lit by a dull, eccentric Italian who was horrible at math, and an even more horrible person as an individual, who more or less blundered into the American continent as he found himself looking to get rich quick, and proceeded to teach the natives an appalling lesson about the avarice and self-righteous hatred which drives the white devil to inflict endless cruelties upon them.

Today, Christopher Columbus is not remembers for the entrepreneurial spirit of adventure which he was once lionized for, but for his dumb luck in a sea of bad ideas which typically end with Darwin taking his toll. He was barely able to launch his expedition at all because he had been laughed out of every court in Europe, who all agreed that his math was fucking horrible and that he would be sailing suicidally into the global sea. Contrary to popular myth, they actually had a pretty darn close understanding of how big the world was in those days, so when Columbus came strolling in spouting his bullshit, all of the learned, educated scholars shooed him away. It was only when he went into the court of the young, impressionable queen Isabella of the newly crafted kingdom of Spain that he got anywhere. A 18 year old girl with a need to prove her country, even to the point of funding quacks. But this one happened to crash into a continent on his way to impending doom

1. Jesus being born

>Moon Landing.
>Literally nothing happen after that.

20th century historiography called, they want their eurocentrism back

More. You've been right on so far.

The Imperial Cult replacing Christianity as the most populous religion in the modern world would have extreme implications for modern history.

this

1) Domestication of animals
2) Invention of writing
3) Scientific method

1. Printing Press
2. Internet
3. Invention of modern hygiene.

I know things foundation of civilizations like the Roman Republic, Han dynasty, etc. are all important. These 3 inventions allow us to live as we do today.

>Printing press
Spread of literacy and information. Without one or the other, the highest you'll ever go is the Inca. And that was cream of the crop with shit literacy and good spread of information. They were advanced in that sense, but nothing compared to the Old World.
>Internet
Spread of information and easy global connection. Hardest one to justify because it's so recent, but having nearly the entirety of humanity's knowledge at your fingertips at such an affordable price is worth more than every library ever. It also serves as a marketplace, bank, stock exchange, and mail.
>Modern hygiene
It may seem weird, but it, combined with agriculture (which I would list in place of this because it birthed civilization, but is prehistory soooo...), has allowed us to sustain the population we see today and controls man's only significant and deadliest predator--disease. It has far and away killed more people than any war (unless you count it with war casualties) or famine. Without agriculture, we have no society, and with widespread disease, we'd probably top off to a billion or so people at most, for better or for worse. I thought modern medicine was too general, but that obviously supersedes this due to including this if applicable.

I don't mean just handwashing either; autoclaving is one of the best and by far the most important sterilization tool we have for hospitals and biological research.

Honorable mentions: Code of Hammurabi, foundation of Roman Republic, Sargon of Akkad's conquest, Silk Road, Columbus's voyage.

Invention of written language
-Allowed for easy transfer of information between generations
-Invented "history"
Invention of the printing press
-Led to widespread sharing of knowledge
-In turn became a precursor to the industrial revolution
-Allowed for much easier studying and collaboration on important, high-tech studies
Invention of DARPAnet
-Like the printing press but even faster
-Allows for easy sharing of information, not even only in the form of text, but video and audio as well.
-Infinitely large amounts of knowledge out there for anyone who wants it, at no extra cost.

Not our fault that the rest of the world has been pretty irrelevent in the formation of the modern world

Black Plague
Industrial revolution
Discovery of the new world

Too many ideologues in one thread.

This is the dumbest ranking of the whole thread

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>Antibiotics development
>Battle of Marathon
>Invention of explosives

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This is the best shit i've seen on this board in months, please do some more, pretty please?

Exactly

So:

1. Crucifiction of Jesus
Basically created the entire base christianity, that lead to formation of western civilization after baptizing of Constantine.

2. Forming of Templars
Who invented banking, that lead to creation entire economical structure of the world. Also funded much of the age exploration (including Columbus).

3. Shooting of Franz Ferdinand
Sparked the WWI, that ended the age of colonization and laid the foundation that started WWII. With repercussions we see even today.

Thanks fellas, it means a lot. Just because you asked, here's one more

4. The Battle of Stalingrad - The single most destructive battle in human history. 2.2 Million dead is a larger number than we are capable of comprehending. Imagine a field of slaughtered WWI soldiers, and you might be looking at 100,000 dead, tops. Not even close to the number killed at Stalingrad. We as finite humans are incapable of imagining the totality of the death and misery that was the battle on the Volgo river. Endless wave after wave of Germans and Russians feeding themselves into the meat-grinder of urban combat

But here's the cruelest irony of Stalingrad: a larger number of people died in the siege of Leningrad. The Battles of Moscow and Kursk were both far more strategically important. But there could not be a more perfect microcosm of industrialized warfare to study than Stalingrad, as most of the death was battlefield mayhem, but the single most horrible fact about it starts at the very top: it was a totally pointless, needless battle of no strategic value. Every single one of Hitler's generals tried to talk him out of his obsession with the city named after his hated rival. He would fire them on the spot and hire them weeks later when he realized that he needed his top brass in the middle of a war he's on the verge of losing. Everyone except that fat bastard Göring, whose lies caused an entire army of Germans to lose their lives in the most horrendous conditions that any soldier has ever faced in war

We are only just beginning to understand the ramifications of a world where communism, not fascism, went on to rule a 3rd of the globe for as long as they had other people's money to spend, before imploding in on itself. As the Roman empire could be considered a proto-fascist state, its fate might serve as a potent "what if" for people who imagine a world where Adolf Hitler was the dictator who got to write history instead of Joseph Stalin