Top 10 most important history period

[Combine Hybrid]

What is your top 10 most important western history period? Give years and state why.

 

[Solaris]

Dublin, Ireland, 1916.



So many men gave their lives knowing that they would die and their revolution would be in vain. However they knew the impact they made would last a century.

 

[15357]

1939 Poland

The start of WW2.

1941 June 11th

Germany invades the Soviet Union, thus sealing their fate.

 

[Sheepo]

April 15, 1993: Sheepo's birth.

Should be "What do you believe is the most important western history period?", but I'm just being a nitpicking ass.

 

[gFrohman]

1939 Poland

The start of WW2.

1941 June 11th

Germany invades the Soviet Union, thus sealing their fate.

I will agree with you on this - a lot of shit went down during this time period.

 

[theotherguy]

Most important periods in Western history
1. ~8,000 BCE Mesopotamian agriculture. (Also in India and China, but you said "western")
2. ~1100BCE-149 BCE- Greece
3. ~508BCE-500CE Rome
4. ~500CE-1300CE Middle Ages
5. 14-17th Century: Renaissance
6. 1700's-late 1800's: Industrial Revolution, Political Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment
7. 1914-1918- World War I
8. 1939-1946- World War II
9. 1946-1991- Cold War
20. Right now- Period of peace, unification, and economic recession.

 

[MJ12]

1985, Britain, Dead Or Alive releases their hit You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) on radio and television, forever changing history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I agree with Zombieturtle in so much as I think it is the most profound yet mentioned. But I really don't think I could list the most important moments unless I could include all of them.

 

[theotherguy]

1985, Britain, Dead Or Alive releases their hit You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) on radio and television, forever changing history.

It bothers me that a rap remix of this song is popular nowadays.

It bothers me even more than the ambiguous gender of their lead singer.

 

[mocho loco]

They seem to make a rap remix of every good song out there.

That really bothers me.

 

[MJ12]

It's pretty damn awful-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR-dnveyBjU


Painfully lame... I know what you are thinking "double standard?!", but it was the 80's, and 80's lameness was awesome.

 

[Warped]

4th of October 1957

Sputnik 1 was the world's first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite.

and in many ways opened us to the dawn of the Space Age publicly. Although there were many sightings and crashes (Roswell) this was really the push for Outer Space and Exploration. In just about a decades time man put a man on very close rock we call the Moon and someday we may actually do the same to a far away planet in a nearby star system. and who knows, we could one day venture forth into a whole new dimension

 

[Eejit]

I'm with theotherguy.

Oh and history period != specific date in history.

 

[MJ12]

I'm with theotherguy.

So the rap version bothers you more than the ambiguous gender of the lead singer?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I should get one of those history books and look shit up just for the hell of it. I did kinda like history classes throughout grade school. Found all of it very interesting. Favorite Western stuff has to be the Greek stuff and Renaissance.

 

[dfc05]

60's and 70's had a lot of social movements going on... civil rights, anti-war, "women's liberation", early environmental

Maybe not on the same level of importance as the things mentioned in theotherguy's list, but I'm learning about social movements in class right now so it's fresh on my mind. It's pretty striking to realize that just 40 years ago there was still heavy discrimination and voting inequality in the South (and also apartheid in S. Africa up until the 90's...), and women faced severe job discrimination. We've come a long way... in some regards.

 

[PJ]

The Russian Revolution in 1917 is interesting.

all from about 1914 ~ 1950 is cool.

 

[The Monkey]

Most important periods in Western history
1. ~8,000 BCE Mesopotamian agriculture. (Also in India and China, but you said "western")
2. ~1100BCE-149 BCE- Greece
3. ~508BCE-500CE Rome
4. ~500CE-1300CE Middle Ages
5. 14-17th Century: Renaissance
6. 1700's-late 1800's: Industrial Revolution, Political Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment
7. 1914-1918- World War I
8. 1939-1946- World War II
9. 1946-1991- Cold War
20. Right now- Period of peace, unification, and economic recession.

Seconded.

 

[Mr Stabby]

Rise of the Franks, reign of Charlemagne ~800AD
Crusades ~ 1100-1300AD
The protestant reformation ~ 1500AD

 

[NeptuneUK]

Rise of the Franks, reign of Charlemagne ~800AD
Crusades ~ 1100-1300AD
The protestant reformation ~ 1500AD

Crusades again ~ 2001 - present

 

[Remus]

5. 14-17th Century: Renaissance
6. 1700's-late 1800's: Industrial Revolution, Political Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment
7. 1914-1918- World War I
8. 1939-1946- World War II
9. 1946-1991- Cold War
20. Right now- Period of peace, unification, and economic recession.

Most important periods of history to me. Especially the Renaissance and Industrial Revolution, I shudder to think what the world would look like today if those things never happened.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

2010s: The collapse of the United States, the second Great Plague of Europe and Vladimir Putin reveals his secret plan of the last fifteen years as Moscow is launched into orbit and the rest of Russia rises up on mechanical legs to flatten most of Asia and Europe.

 

[Feath]

Dublin, Ireland, 1916.



So many men gave their lives knowing that they would die and their revolution would be in vain. However they knew the impact they made would last a century.

Only 7 years to go then.

 

[The Monkey]

Feath? Haven't seen you in a long time! How's your teath?

 

[Danimal]

Holy ****ing shit it's Feeth.

 

[NeptuneUK]

All ye who have faith in feath say I!

 

[DEATH eVADER]

April 13th, 1970

Seriously, NASA was tempting fate naming Apollo 13, which would launch at 13:13 CST, which would also have the problem on April 13th

 

[Unfocused]

And your homework assignment is due when?

 

[Sulkdodds]

The french revolution was really really important to modern European history.

 

[VirusType2]

discovery of the vagina
discovery of fire
discovery of the wheel
communication using universal language
the written word (latin)
learning to harness and create electricity
invention of the telephone
invention of the camera
invention of the airplane
the internet

 

[Apocalypse89]

I'd say the rise of agriculture and civilization sometime after 10,000 BC, and the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries, overshadow any other time period in importance.

Although the Information and Globalization Revolution we're going through right now thanks to telecommunications, electronics/computers, and the falling cost of global transport, might turn out to be equally as important.

 

[Ravioli]

WW2, WW1, Spartans preventing rest of europe being invaded, Industrial Revolution

 

[The Monkey]

WW2, WW1, Spartans preventing rest of europe being invaded, Industrial Revolution

 

[Ravioli]

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lrn2history

 

[Viperidae]

To those of you so invested in the Renaissance, please explain.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Ppl stopped being dumbshits and shitting in each others faces for a second to improve life and learning.

 

[Viperidae]

Try using actual facts, monsieur.

 

[Ravioli]

Try using actual facts, monsieur.

There were lots of cake in the renaissance, lots of it.

 

[The Monkey]

The Renaissance is a quite vague term, as it unclear when it started and when it ended. Italy, for example, a movement similar to the Renaissance started already in the 13 century. The same goes for the Middle Ages, that is a very stupid name for a historical period. History is far to complex to allow it to be neatly structured into sequent periods.

 

[Reflex]

Wut?
How can you compare history?