Most Significant Event in History from 1000 to 1500 C.E.

Originally posted by Slick Originally posted by pekau Some events that I might have added are...   - The unification of German Empire. - Discovery of Nuclear weapons, and the beginning of Cold War - Britain's Industrial Revolution (Ex. Mass production technique) - The coming of Jesus Christ, Muhammad, and other religious figures. - Breakout of World War II - Creation of Israel - Alexander's Conquest - Emerge of Roman Empire - Barbarian invasion to Roman Empire - Black Death over Europe - Spanish Conquest over South, Middle and some of North America. - Battle in the Plains of Abraham - Japanese Empire's declaration of war against United States and her allies - Invention of railways, and telegram - The Great Scatter of Indo-European civilization in the flooded Black Sea. - Invention of Compass and Gunpowder in China - Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nation" - French Revolution - Conflicts in the Middle East (Modern time)       Slight Problem: Many, if not all, of these events happened way after or before AD 1,000-1,500. :/   By the way, I went against conformity and voted for the Mongol Conquests. The re-opening of trade routes stretching from Asia to Europe had a profound effect on the world, that outmatched even the discoveries of Columbus, in my opinion. Columbus only discovered America; there had been European voyages and colonization in other countries for years. Moreover, the re-opening of trade routes may have increased European curiosity and knowledge of the outside world, and thus indirectly spawned European voyages of exploration and colonization.

Well, as far as I know, the guy that started it all was Henry the Navigator, who is recognized by that fact in Hispanic America, at least.

Originally posted by pinguin A similar case is Francis Drake that is usually more known in the anglosaxon countries that the earlier Portuguese or Spanish explorers.

My vote for Mongolian conquest:

Destruction of most developed state of the world, Song China, and paralization of that civilization wich was the vanguard.

Destruction and paralization of the axis region of the old world, the Middle East.

Destruction and severe change of the life of Eastern Europe, specially Russia.



Good work mongols

Originally posted by gcle2003   To be fair, I don't think anybody even suggests that Sir Francis Drake was much in the way of an explorer or a colonist.   Mostly he is celebrated for beating up on the Spaniards, whenever he took time off from playing bowls.

Originally posted by Constantine XI Columbus' voyage, before there were but kingdoms, and afterwards a globe.

Originally posted by pinguin Originally posted by Constantine XI Columbus' voyage, before there were but kingdoms, and afterwards a globe.   Agree!   Columbus marked the beginning of globalization.   Pinguin

Originally posted by Ikki My vote for Mongolian conquest:Destruction of most developed state of the world, Song China, and paralization of that civilization wich was the vanguard.Destruction and paralization of the axis region of the old world, the Middle East.Destruction and severe change of the life of Eastern Europe, specially Russia.Good work mongols

Oh... Another strong contender! I think you swayed me to your choice, Ikki!

Xi: Seljuqs were already a powerhouse WELL before the fall of Byzantium. It was Ottomans who destroyed Byzantium - you should know this!

Edited by Zagros - 06-Feb-2007 at 11:47

Alexander the great's conquests must surely have a place- ultimatley his conquests brought Greek culture, technology and civilization into central asia, as well as introducing eastern culture to Greece. Although most of this progress was created by his sucessor Diodachi states, it's still worth a mention. I don't really think that the rennaissance is a real contender, because, as this goes back to 1000 BC, some of the later developments would not have been possible without the earlier developments. If we want to find a few of the most important events, we'll just have to look at the earlier developments.

Originally posted by Frederick Roger Originally posted by pinguin Originally posted by Constantine XI Columbus' voyage, before there were but kingdoms, and afterwards a globe.   Agree!   Columbus marked the beginning of globalization.   Pinguin   That's it, I quit. You can take the bicycle.

I take it.

Did the Portugese knew before 1492 about the Americas? It is quiet possible. They were fishing cod in the North (Newfoundland), potentialy the 'volta' brought them to nowadays Brazilian and Argentinian shores, and luck may well have brought them to the Carabeans.
The question is: did they care about it? No. Because it was not commercially interesting. The Carabeans and Brazil must have been full of weird native totally underdeveloped, so was Canada. And taking them as slaves was not even interesting as the African supplies were more than sufficient. So even if they knew about the new world (which I doubt for S. America) they couldn't care less.

Colombus brought two novelties: he was precisely gold thirsty and most likely a bit mad, so getting inland was ok for him and he brought the Spaniards who are agrarian warriors and landlords.
On the contrary, the Portugeses were interested by trade 1) per se and 2) as a way to finance new discoveries to finally arrive in India. Just consider the way they "colonized" the Indian ocean. Did they try to invade any land in India or in Africa? No they were just interested in ports of trades and in taxing the trade of the other merchants.
On the other hand the Spaniards did invade the lands and ultimately found gold and silver.

That said I think the most important event was the Mongol conquests as they've triggered many other very important events:
Fall of Songs, definite roll back of the Muslims in Central Asia, enormous consequences in India, broke Eastern Europe and Russia, are involved in the black plague........
The discoverie had a tremendous impact but latter.