Most influential person history.

[AFB]

Originally posted by: upsciLLion

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Anand Lal Shimpi.

New pair of knee pads ?

New pair of dumbass pads?

So is that a yes ?

 

[ThePresence]

Alexander the Great.

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: SilentZero
Id give Einstein my vote also.

without Newton, there will be no Einstein.

Newton is more important for how the modern world start off. china would be dominated today if Newton was born in there.

 

[Brutuskend]

Adam, if you care to buy into that whole song and dance.

Whomever got into Pandora's Box, if you prefer THAT one instead.

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: oniq

Originally posted by: MAME
jesus christ

he was a real man who was 100% ordinary and now a bunch of morons made him in to a fairytale.

How would he have been influential if he hadn't been made into a fairytale?

....he wouldn't


that's my point

 

[Mo0o]

Hitler

 

[UglyCasanova]

Edward Teller and team for inventing the hydrogen bomb. Now humanity posses the capability of completely destroying itself.

Yup, I was watching the History Channel today (and it wasnt even about WW2!).

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

Where would we be without printed material to significantly improve passing on our knowledge to the children by a hundred-fold? Probably still in the dark ages.

My vote for Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press.

(The first book he printed? The Bible)

 

[Ryan]

Hitler - he has influenced history more than any other mentioned.

 

[Shaftatplanetquake]

Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
Ein Ein Ein Einstein!

Tecka Neena

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
Hitler - he has influenced history more than any other mentioned.

It remains to be seen. He only died about 60 years ago so his history is really short compared to others. Also, how did Hitler influence history more than, say, Alexander the Great or Napoleon?

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: rbloedow
Hitler - he has influenced history more than any other mentioned.

It remains to be seen. He only died about 60 years ago so his history is really short compared to others. Also, how did Hitler influence history more than, say, Alexander the Great or Napoleon?

I'd say that helping to kick off the largest known world war is pretty significant. Through our involvement and his defeat, he helped to solidify the US as the largest SUPERPOWER earth has ever seen - another big one in my book.

 

[5ayle]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Alexander the Great.

Finally, without him western civilization would not have had a strong foothold. So no Roman Empire, no Jesus, no Hitler.

I'd set my vote for the lieutenant that saved Alexander's life during his first war w/ Darius I (or II). A guy w/ an axe was gonna off Alexander after he dazed him w/ a blow to the head, but the leiutanant saved him before he could do it. A second later and history would have been different and life as we know it as well.

 

[Zee]

bill gates

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: rbloedow
Hitler - he has influenced history more than any other mentioned.

It remains to be seen. He only died about 60 years ago so his history is really short compared to others. Also, how did Hitler influence history more than, say, Alexander the Great or Napoleon?

I'd say that helping to kick off the largest known world war is pretty significant. Through our involvement and his defeat, he helped to solidify the US as the largest SUPERPOWER earth has ever seen - another big one in my book.

I'm not saying that he's insignificant, that would be silly. But I think he's definitely overshadowed in the large scheme of things.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

I'd say either Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the steam engine in 1705, or James Watt, the guy who perfected it in 1763. They basically sparked the industrial revolution. Though, the Wright brothers and Alan Turing (probably the father of modern computer science) sure rank up there.

/history major

 

[Arcanedeath]

Sun Tsu for the Art of War, Prob. the most defining book on military principle to this day

 

[Cerb]

Who: that guy, way back when, who made the first spear.
Why: we're alive, thriving even.

 

[freegeeks]

homo erectus: the first species to show conscious design of any complexity

may have been the first species to use and control fire enabling it to migrate into colder climates in Europe and Asia

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: MillionaireNextDoor
Where would we be without printed material to significantly improve passing on our knowledge to the children by a hundred-fold? Probably still in the dark ages.

My vote for Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press.

(The first book he printed? The Bible)

The first (and arguably second) Western re-inventor of a technology already thousands of years used in China you mean.
First few million books they printed? Not a Bible among them.

 

[coldfirenj]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Alexander the Great.

Peter the Great > Alexander the Great

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: coldfirenj

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Alexander the Great.

Peter the Great > Alexander the Great

I hope you're kidding.

 

[Ausm]

Da Vinci

Sysadmin

 

[episodic]

Vlad Dracula. . .

 

[aircooled]

Lenny Bruce.