Cities of great contributions to mankind - Edited.

Edited by Hellios - 11-Oct-2006 at 15:21

Hard to judge. All the above-mentioned cities have made contributions. I would consider London and NYC  to be late-comers in the club; they have mostly contibuted in 20th century cinvilization as centers of culture and the arts. As a born Athenian, I might be biased towards the latter.  By the way, the mouse doesn't work; to my shame, I only recognize Pericles on bottom right corner. Would you please post the names of these apparently famous men? 


Edited by konstantinius - 04-Oct-2006 at 23:47

Edited by Hellios - 15-Dec-2006 at 22:08

I don't know which one is the most important, but my guesses are:

Edited by pinguin - 05-Oct-2006 at 00:30

Originally posted by konstantinius Hard to judge. All the above-mentioned cities have made contributions. I would consider London and NYC  to be late-comers in the club; they have mostly contibuted in 20th century cinvilization as centers of culture and the arts. As a born Athenian, I might be biased towards the latter.  By the way, the mouse doesn't work; to my shame, I only recognize Pericles on bottom right corner. Would you please post the names of these apparently famous men?

Originally posted by BigL The ancient indian citys and chinese as well as Athens. Equal  in philosphys and Sciences

Edited by Hellios - 05-Oct-2006 at 07:48

@ Hellios
I'm afraid you are wrong when you say Jerusalem influence was ONLY religious. The influence of religion upon politics and thought in general is and was tremendous. That said I don't think Jerusalem diserves to be called the most important city of all times as ultimately its symbolic value is huge but the real value tends to be a bit less clear.

Actually I do not really know what city to pick. (partly because I know nothing of the History of the lands on the East of the Indus.)

Yet here would be my potential top ten:
10 Ur, the first one.
09 Los Angeles (or maybe Las Vegas) city of the future or the last city.
08 Cairo (more than Bagdad) long term center of Islam, born three times.
07 Paris the first �ber-centralized capital of a Nation-State (well Madrid and Lisbon may be first but are not as successful on the long term).
06 Athen, well it is self evident
05 Venice, the first real entrepot and the city that is a piece of art
04 London, center of the political, economical and scientific world for more than 200 years (and what years!)
03 NYC center of a decentralized world, the richest in history
02 Jerusalem
01 Sorry to be Euro-centrist but defently Rome THE urbs the one and only city.

Athens

I would like to nominate Cambridge, some of the students of the university and their contributions :-

Isaac Newton, establishes the fundamental principles of modern Physics including laws of motion, the constituent parts of light and the universal law of gravitation.

Charles Babbage constructs early mechanical calculator (1812)

Charles Darwin, theory of evolution

James Clark Maxwell, electromagnetic radiation

JJ Thompson, discovers the electron and the foundation of electronics

Jawaharial Nehru, Prime Minister of India

Sir Fredric Gowland Hopkins, discovers vitamins

Maurice Wilkes, first digital computer to store a programme

John croft & Ernest Watson, split the atom for the first time, giving birth to nuclear physics

Frank whittle, patents the first jet engine, first jet powered plane flies 1941

Watson & Crick discover the structure of DNA

Sir Charles Oatley, First scanning electric microscope

Athens of course.
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