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What is the most important event in history?

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levious

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a) when man's ancestors began eating meat
b) irrigation
c) salting as a means of preservation
d) combustion engine
 
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Drozmight

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God's dead. I killed him last summer. On accident. He and I were doing body shots off these two hot coeds in Mexico. I was watching him do his when I passed out and pinned his head between the girls stomach and mine. Everyone was too drunk to noticed.
 
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bionic77

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Tommie Hu$tle said:
Yeah I was going to go with that or Monotheism.
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I think only like 50% of the world believes in one God. Muslims, Jews, and Christians. That is it right? That is like 3 billion out of 6 billion.

Even to this day, a large percentage of the world is illiterate. I still place spoken language way above the printing press (even though this had an exponential effect on the advance of civilization).

So for me it is agriculture or language. I choose agriculture because to me that was the beginning of civilization.
 
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DMczaf

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February 17, 1963


Here, I'll give you a hint

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Socreges

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DMczaf said:
February 17, 1963


Here, I'll give you a hint

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I'm not too fluent in American history, but was that the day homosexuals gained the right to vote? I never saw it as THAT important.
 
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Foreign Jackass

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Half of you guys aren't naming events. AGRICULTURE is not an event. Monotheism isn't an event. We aren' t playing Civilization, guys.

I'd say either the birth of Jesus-Christ (I'm not a believer, but it had an incredible impact on our lives), or the A-bomb over Hiroshima, which could be the ancestor of the end of the world, but when it happens, nobody will care what event was the most important in history. :lol
 
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marko

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Foreign Jackass said:
Half of you guys aren't naming events. AGRICULTURE is not an event. Monotheism isn't an event. We aren' t playing Civilization, guys.
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Agricultural Revolution (led to civilization) is an event. Long term event to be sure, but an event none the less. And I agree, this was huge.
 
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AntoneM

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Foreign Jackass said:
Half of you guys aren't naming events. AGRICULTURE is not an event. Monotheism isn't an event. We aren' t playing Civilization, guys.
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had to be repeated.

As for me I'd say The French revolution only because it marks the point that the world in general starts to accept democracy as a valid for of government and capitalism as it's economic system. Sure, we could do better, but we can and have done much much worse. The American revolution came first but the French not only validated it with thier own revolution but after them it spread through Europe and subsequently, the world. Just think if the US was the only nation on earth that had set up a capitalist democracy, we'd have been shunned (well worse than that).

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in a broader sense, not just human history, the greatest event is rather easy... the start of it all. Whether you belive a benevolant being created everything, the universe always was and always will be, or that a giangantic explosion started it all, the greates and most important even in history is the start of history itself.
 
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Lonestar

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shit, if I had hit that, would I be here? I'd be back there hitting it for the 68th time.
 
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