/lit/ - Literature

no it's probably world war 2

Probably ww2

definitely ww2

>>1579832
haha, hivemind. This is the third hivemind in one night!

The birth of the messiah.

From an American perspective it probably is.

>>1579835
Those other two were me as well! haha, oh man

>>1579843
There's only one conclusion...

>>1579846
We're gay

>>1579846
I'm literally the greatest poster on 4chan?

>>1579850
haha yep. get over here and i'll slob your knob

Just think about, the most important event in human history ends being WW2, a conflict where millions died in the name of greed, stupidity and madness. It just makes me feel so depressed, you know?

The most important event in history occur on 28 June 1914.
On this day the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated.

>>1579853
Actually it's 9/11

They're all connected, thus they are all equally as important. Determinism.

the day someone put lime flavoring on tortilla chips

>>1579857
and thence went on to inspire the name of the biggest, most influential band of the aughties. The Killers.

>>1579853
lol fag

>>1579864

Those chips are disgusting.

>>1579857
ahahahahaha

Your trip is "in hoc signo vinces" and you think the most important event in human history was the assassination of FF?

>>1579872
hahahaha this was a good post (although i actually really liked the first killers album and still do)

>>1579871
He might have a point without WW1 we would of never seen the rise of the nazi party in germany.

>>1579892
I'm just saying that having that trip would imply that you think, you know, the birth of christ is the most important event in human history.

>>1579869
fuck you homo

>>1579900

Y u mad brah?

Everything is connected. Haven't you seen the film Pay It Forward?

>>1579900
>>1579902
Well this was a fun thread but I guess it's time for another edition of Tripfag Arguments

bump

>>1580431
REPORTED AND SAGGED

>>1579825

>World Civ 2 Honors

Get out of here you fucking underage ban. Come back when you have experienced life a bit and are less retarded.

>>1580445
I'm not retarded I'm an honors student

>>1580605

Mikael, do you have Begchan's email?

>>1580608
my name is not mikael but i'll answer your question anyway no i don't, I don't think amazon gives that stuff out

The day the monkey stood up straight. Everything just went downhill after that.

>>1579825
The big bang.

>>1580647
>History=Prehistory
they're two different word for something

>>1580642
>Everything just went downhill after that.
Nope. It didn't really start going downhill until the Neolithic.

the most important event in history was creation.

There are a lot of important moments in History... I don't think there's something like THE MOST important one. WWI and WWII were maybe the 2 most important moments after the fall of the Ancien Régime (this including USA's independence). The fall of Berlin Wall was fucking important moment too, maybe important like WWs I&II

spread of farming through europe and asia

>>1581514
>>1581533

>>1581533
>>1581533
THIS
the settlement (Sedentism) of the tribes of the stone age was definetly the most important event in human history.

>>1581514
When we created language.

the creation of the phoenecian alphabet, 100% fact.

every war, every invention, every event in the last 2000 years merely exists as a branch on the tree of western civilisation, and the phoenecian alphabet is the seed.

first alphabet to use a small amount of characters for each sound, whereas before with runes, heiroglyphs, kanji etc, every word had a character and so the language is much harder to mass produce if you will. especially seeing as how the only literate groups were preists or scribes. with the ease of the phoenecian alphabet style the military achieved literacy, shortly after alexander the great set out on his famous campaigns. as these individual sound alphabets trickled into more and more career types the mechanical interchangable nature of the writing style has been implanted in every facet of life. along with our numerical sytems similar technological ease (try writing 295957373858 in roman numerals or tally) our minds and how we see the world have been forever changed. mechanised. WHAT HAVE WE DONE.

the founding of the Persian empire is the most important event in history

>>1581565
that was not an 'event' though. it happened over time

The day USA got to the moon.

Maybe 1789 when Hegel's End of History started. That was the beginning of the extension of the Aufklärung globally.

>>1581571

id call it an event, if your thinking in terms of evolution or universal movement an event becomes a larger and larger period of time, whereas if your looking at molecules it become smaller. the creation of that alphabet was on the scale of our evolution rather than the scale a war would be placed on. the difference between modern society and ancient society is as large as the differnce between ancient society and cavemen.

>>1579862
this, but less faggy. theres a perfectly good explanation to why every rock rolls down any hill. shit happenned to make that happen and etc etc.

everything is caused by something. to say FF caused the world wars is right and wrong. to say the rise of the nazi party after ww1 was the cause of ww2 is right and wrong. could you say that his assassins just had good aime that day because they got good sleep that night? well, then it's because their neighbors werent fucking loudly til 5am. where does it start and where does it end? determinism, man. the shit had to happen. this post had to happen. OP had to be a faggot. HAD TO.

tell your teacher that you dont like his question, first. then tell him whatever you want because he probably wont get it.

The main issue that I see here is the vagueness of events versus inventions. For example, I have seen the Phoenician alphabet brought up, and, at least to me, that is an invention rather than a specific event in time.

Also, there is no differentiation between long term demographic events (also vague) that are extraordinarily important (such as the city migrations), or short term events like WW2.

Take in mind that most all of us here are not experts in these subjects, and there are all our opinions (therefore subjective),

For me, the greatest invention would probably be the Phoenician alphabet, because it allowed for abstract thought to be demonstrated amongst many people. The greatest long-term change was the implementation of quarantines, because it allowed for the implementation of cities, which brought us the massive levels of efficiency in modern culture.

The greatest short term event is a toss up between a variety of things, such as the Battle of Tours (needed to look up) by Martell that stopped encroachment of Islam, or the revolutions of 1844 (because they influenced Marx, and gave Europe nationalism) or when China gave up its shipping projects in the 1500s (they would have been the discoverers of the New World)

But, all of there are subjective in the end.

>>1581611

good post what.

>when China gave up its shipping projects in the 1500s

i think this is one of the more significant short term events. along with the rome defeating carthage

THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT IN HISTORY!!!

Think about it... people were wallowing away in ignorance for hundreds of thousands of years until He came along to make everything better.

>>1581651
False. His Rebirth was more important than his Birth. And I thought fictional characters didn't count.

>>1581669

u cant prove it didnt happen

>>1581565
just wanted to add, the tale of cadmus sowing the dragons teeth and skeleton soldiers popping out describes the military adoption of literacy. the rows of small similarly sized letters look like rows of teeth in the mouth of a reptile compared to large vertically arranged half pictures. the skeleton soldiers are proffesionals, specialist career soldiers. unlike the barbarian warrior who was an all purpose member of his tribe. a star reading, fire making hunter gatherer by day, they saw this new breed of person as a skeleton soldier, an unfilled uniform lacking a soul. they were the some of the first true killing specialists. the barbarians merely picked up their weapons when it was time for the tribe to fight, and every man did. the greeks actually killed as a job. i keep finding a lot of legends turn out to be true in really obscure ways.

>>1581683
You can't prove it did. I can't prove you're not a pink unicorn either.

>>1581698
I'm blue.

>>1581698


theres only one way to settle this

JESUS VS THE PURPLE UNICORN

what, in ALL history?

invention of writing. derp.

Invention of History.

>>1581703
that happened before history

The correct answer is the invention of the atomic bomb. I won't even get the chance to say I told you so.

>>1581703

the invention of writing is basically the phoenecian alphabet. sound letters would be writing as we know it, before that it would have been calligraphy, and in the case of the egyptian heirroglyphs, metaphor art. those heiroglyphs and characters would be a single step away from drawing pictures, instead of drawing what you see you draw something that represents something, you make a metaphor. in chinese characters the symbols are still often very basic drawings of the things they represent. to actually call some writing means substituting the visual nature totally. you cant draw a sound, the metaphor is purely mechanical. what we have is an actual technology. what came before was a highly visual multiple sense form of communication that involved internal visualisations and stemmed from your personal experience wirth the world. for instance the character for chi means blood-breath-air-life-power, and makes the person think of all of these things on some level. but for us the letters C, H and I are the code for the sounds your mouth makes. you dont need to know what something is in order to say it. the magic of writing.

There's no such thing as one single important event. Every single thing that has ever happened on Earth has led us to where we are today. If you were to eliminate even the tiniest event from our entire history, we wouldn't have the world as we see it.

Plus, how do you define important?

The first industrial revolution.

Nothing changed the world as much. Try taking screenshots of different times of history, and you'll see what I mean. Now of course, there are earlier happenings without whom the industrial revolution wouldn't have happened at all, but those moments are dependent of other things as well, so the only way to pick the most important event, is the event that caused the biggest change on its own.

The invention of the printing machine.
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>>1581755

best be trollin