What is the most extraordinary thing ever to happen in the history of mankind?

Question

What is the most extraordinary thing ever to happen in the history of mankind?

Answer 1

The Plow. Being able to cultivate lands led to less wandering and the creation of communities. It also made it possible to plant and grow more crops, which led to stockpiles of excess food, which led to the creation of writing as a means to label supplies, writing led to the end of "prehistory" and the advancement of all technology and education can be led back to writing, and although it's not exciting, the plow

Answer 2

A few here, you want the big ones. Learning how to create fire. The invention of the wheel. The recognition as a species that we actually do think and learn. The car. The telegraph. The nuclear bomb. That's it.

Answer 3

The evolution of Homo Sapien  

Answer 4

The advent of raising and training animals.  People often say a million things when trying to define what man's role on Earth is.  You hear some say "Man explores", you hear others say "Man conquers", "Man invents", "Man dreams".  This is what man actually does: Man makes Man's life easier.  Man explores to find new places to cultivate and take advantage of.  He conquers to spare himself of the necessity of defense.  He invents labor saving devices, and he dreams only of paradise.  The first step of our social evolution was animal husbandry.  Without it we would be doomed to explore, conquer, invent, and just keep on dreaming.

Before you criticize my rant, consider this: could you and your family really maintain the lifestyle you have right now if you had to kill a mammoth every morning?  Let's say that that's the only difference.  I think you will realize that there is an unbroken chain of discoveries leading to our current top-of-the-food-chain status that are all focused on saving Man's time and energy.

Answer 5

The sun

Answer 6

Okay, my contribution is the life and death of (earthly) Jesus.  Read Thomas Cahill's Desire of the Everlasting Hills for the reasons why.  

Answer 7

me being born

Answer 8

Our creation of course.

Answer 9

The first man to be born/created/made/etc.  

Answer 10

This topic is soooooo wide I don't know where to start. Well first there was the big bang which started the universe, and earth, and then life emerged from that. So some people call that the most extraordinary thing evr to happen in histroy. Then if your looking at religious truth then its the birth of christ and his loving life. Then it could be the evolution of mankind and how sciences has proved that we evolved from apes. There are so many you to look into numerous events to find the one you're looking for.