Who was the most important person of the last millennium?
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How the hell?
How the hell did Sir Isaac Newton not get on that list?
The world's first astrophysicist and inventor of calculus (let alone solver of many problems, including various branches of differential calculus).
How the hell did Sir Isaac Newton not get on that list?
The world's first astrophysicist and inventor of calculus (let alone solver of many problems, including various branches of differential calculus).
But if he had fired, the droids would never have landed on Luke's planet, Luke never would have met Obi Wan, and the entire saga never would have taken place and the Dark Side would have taken over the galaxy.
So you see, that guy whilst totally inept at his job started a chain reaction that probably in the end, he regretted. Or not . . . .
Re: How the hell?
Sorry prof. The poll only lets you have 10 options. He was on my list, but I didn't have room for everyone.
Sorry prof. The poll only lets you have 10 options. He was on my list, but I didn't have room for everyone.
While the 2 are similar in some ways the difference is that Hitler was in the 20th century.Truth is history and its importance has been on like sterioids in that era.Let me put it this way, IMO the most 2 important events in the 20th century ,in the last millennium ,fact in all of man's history were the splitting of the atom and man landing on the moon.While both may have occurred without Hitler and WW2 they were certainly sped up by the war and his actions.It has been said we would have not split the atom for possibly another 100 years without the impetus of WW2.And the american space program was run and started on the backs of the scientists (Von Braun) and the work of the germans in WW2.
Napoleon's legacy was greater than Hitler's , for example the spread of metrication (even though he detested it and at one time banned it)
He also ended France's Great Power status, although France still sat at the top table she was no longer a World Power.In a sense he gave a free hand to Britain in the 19th century which is why English,not French, is the world language.
But if he had fired, the droids would never have landed on Luke's planet, Luke never would have met Obi Wan, and the entire saga never would have taken place and the Dark Side would have taken over the galaxy.
I thought that was a long time ago, in a galexy far away.
The atom was first split by Chadwick in Cambridge in 1936.
The question though is loaded.The last millennium? surely a person early on has had more influence than a latecomer? William the Conqueror shaped England in a way that's still recognisable to this day.
blue balls, with what might commonly appear to be insane ramblings, has hit upon an important observation.
By bringing up with so-called butterfly effect of "inconsequential certitude" (I just made that up), he points out the historical perspectivism that underlies any answer to this question.
you say that Hitler is the most important person? but what about Hitler's mother, or his great-grandfather? Without them there would be no Adolph Hitler, so how can you say which one is more important or influential?
By bringing up with so-called butterfly effect of "inconsequential certitude" (I just made that up), he points out the historical perspectivism that underlies any answer to this question.
you say that Hitler is the most important person? but what about Hitler's mother, or his great-grandfather? Without them there would be no Adolph Hitler, so how can you say which one is more important or influential?
Eureka! Yes! That it, im a genius :nanner:
Just remember Cal, that Nobel Prize is mine, no matter how much I plagiarize from "Spaced"
Wile e coyote............super genius!
As someone posted earlier, the "greatest person" question all comes down to influences, causality and speculation.
Without Hitler very few things would be as they are now, but without Anton Drexler there might not have been no nazi party for him to lead, Without all the people who wrote the treaty of Versailles it may have been less unfair to Germany. Without the Serb who shot Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo there might not have been a first world war for Germany to loose, so there would be no treaty, and so on...
I'm just going to put my geek-hat on and go with Leopold von Ranke, who's more to blame then anyone, in the near past, for us even having this discussion.
Without Hitler very few things would be as they are now, but without Anton Drexler there might not have been no nazi party for him to lead, Without all the people who wrote the treaty of Versailles it may have been less unfair to Germany. Without the Serb who shot Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo there might not have been a first world war for Germany to loose, so there would be no treaty, and so on...
I'm just going to put my geek-hat on and go with Leopold von Ranke, who's more to blame then anyone, in the near past, for us even having this discussion.
Violator79
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This has been done before.
But, I'm still going to say Hitler.
Count me in.
I'd also like to nominate the person or persons who wrote the Bible, the greatest work of fiction ever made.
Wainkerr99
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Nelson Mandela.
His policy of reconciliation has echoed throughout human conscience.
His policy of reconciliation has echoed throughout human conscience.
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