[grace]

hello.
i wanted to know some IMPORTANT history events that affected the world forever.
this is what i have so far[please correct me if im wrong.]:
-printing press invented
-hundred years war
-black death
-invention of microscope
-fall of constantinople
-columbus sails to america?
-great schism?
-spanish inquisition?
-jew/muslims expelled from spain?
-war of the roses?

is there anything else?
and the ones with the question marks, were they REALLY important??

This post has been edited by grace: 27 September 2006 - 12:48 AM

[Mrs Faithorn]

grace, on Sep 4 2006, 04:48 AM, said:

hello.
i wanted to know some IMPORTANT history events that effected the world forever.

Mmmmm .... affected the world forever, eh?? I guess it depends what you mean by "the world" and "forever" but some of your examples are very much biased towards British, European and 'western' History and whilst everything you have in your list is certainly an important event I'm not so sure that everything had such a wide and lasting impact.

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this is what i have so far[please correct me if im wrong.]:
-printing press invented
-hundred years war
-black death
-invention of microscope
-fall of constantinople
-columbus sails to america?
-great schism?
-spanish inquisition?
-jew/muslims expelled from spain?
-war of the roses?

is there anything else?
and the ones with the question marks, were they REALLY important??

The events in your list with question marks (apart from the Columbus one) had a big impact in Europe at the time when they happened, but I doubt whether you could argue that they affected "the world forever"

Some events that I think are more important (for the world and forever) include:
the renaissance (developments in art and architecture) which changed the way artists portrayed the world and had a lasting im[pact
the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade (from Africa to the Americas)
the Protestant Reformation

Hope that helps a bit?

[grace]

thank you. :]
i didn't mean to phrase it that way. "the world forever" >.<
but i just wanted to know some KEY events.

[Mrs Faithorn]

grace, on Sep 6 2006, 02:59 AM, said:

thank you. :]
i didn't mean to phrase it that way. "the world forever" >.<
but i just wanted to know some KEY events.

... and I commented on the list you provided (ie said the events with question marks were important) and gave you some other ideas of KEY events.

I hope that is alright?

[MrJohnDClare]

http://www.historyexplorer.net/world_history_timeline... will give you some good ideas - they are one person's selection.

and another:
http://philosophy2.ucsd.edu...

or the BBC Timeline
http://www.bbc.co.uk...l_british.shtml


(PS these events Affected - with an 'a' - the world forever.
'Affected' is the verb
'Effect' is the noun.
- something might affect something; if it does it has had an effect.
There is a verb 'effected' but it means something completely different.)