*sighs* America does not rule the world, nor have they had that much influence on history. Recent history, yes, but that's about it.
Founding of the Roman Empire Life and death of jesus (HISTORICAL figure) Splitting of the Roman Empire (creation of Byzantium) Fall of the Roman empire Founding of Islam Chinese inovation Development of black powder The Crusades The Rennaisance The entire Age of Enligtenment The industrialization of England The isolationist policies of China The French revolution The Nepolionic Wars The Revolutions of 1848 The Franco-German wars Unification of Germany WWI WWII (the **** of Nanking and the Japanese assault on China and Russia.) The Holocaust The Cold War (arms and space race)
I refuse to go further for while events have happened that will leave a lasting impact we have yet to fully understand this impact. Indeed we have yet to fully understand the impact of the past century, but we have a clear understanding for the most party.
The invention of writing is probably the most important historic event, because if there where no writing there would be no history. Also Thirty Years' War and the Guerre de Cent Ans.
The telephone. Communication took a giant leap forwards as did sound theory thanks to Alexander Graham Bell. We measure the sound intensity thru use of decibells (dB)
Efan Im glad America has done lots for the world. It nearly makes up for the other stuff.
Its not a surprise that the United States Of America has had a large affect on the worlds history as they have been a super power for the last 60 years
i would say deffenetly when the light globe was created and when electricity was made because if we didn't have them think of all the thing we couldn't do.
1. Invention of the printing press 2. Invention of the light bulb 3. Industrial Revolution 4. Invention of Dynamite 5. Invention of the first automobile 6. E=mc^2 7. Formulation of Quantum Mechanics 8. First successful flight by the Wright bros. 8. World War I 9. The Great Depression 10. World War II 12. Sputnik's launch into space 13. The Cold War 14. World Wide Web 14. Fall of USSR
I find these events to have played quite a significant role in history.