What is the most important event in world history? (while humans were around)?

Question

I need help with a project and i need to know what the most important event in world history is, please let me know what you think.

This includes all of world history!

Answer 1

The adoption of agriculture/the agrarian lifestyle.

When you plant and harvest crops you tend to stay in one place more than you do if you rely primarily upon hunting and gathering.  In many places/cultures, this led to more permanent settlements, greater trade, etc.  Increases in agricultural knowledge meant that the community was prepared to make the very best of good seasons -- this led to population increases.  More abundant food and larger populations allowed some of the population to do things other than add to the food supply.  Without agriculture, there would have been no Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Great Pyramid, Notre Dame, etc.

Answer 2

The advent of farming in ancient times. Without the mastering of agriculture, civilizations would not have arisen. Without civilization, advances in other fields would never have happened. The world as we know it would not exist.

Answer 3

The birth, life and death of Jesus Christ.  His life marks a watershed moment in history.

Answer 4

The Industrial Revolution -

  Invention of Steamship technology

  Breach loading weapons

  Medical advances (quinine to combat malaria - opened the interior of Africa for European)

  Communication technologies

  The Assembly line

All leading to the interconnected global community that we find ourselves today.

Answer 5

In order of most important

1. Language- What makes humans different from the rest of other animals this is by far the most important event ever in humanity, the only thing is it is unknown how language came about all that is know is that it happened in Africa.

2. Culture- With language we created music, dress beliefes etc which is still in very high use today with out it civilization would not of occured

3. Agriculture- A mahor key for our progression into civilization

4. Industrial revolution- This changed the way humans lived the human population tripped within one century (20th century) due to the industrial revolution. Its big because the human population did not reach 1 billion till 1850 so it took 100,000s years to get to a billion but in the 20th century we simply tripped from 2 billion to 6 now we are on the verge of 7 billion.

The effect of industiral revolution on population

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5. WW2- Gave direct way to:rockets (space exploration) supertankers, atomic energy, airliners, motorways, radio, television, antibiotics, frozen food, computers and microcomputers, microchip, the internet, and mobile telephones affected the quality of life for great numbers

Answer 6

World War I.  It changed the face of the glob, ushered in a new age of warare (that we are still in), carved the old Empires into many nations whose ethnic and religous differences are still causing problems for us today, and laid the ground work for WWII, which carved up the world even more and created more ethnic border conflicts.  WWI still haunts us.  

Answer 7

The Roman Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in the 3rd Century AD.

Answer 8

WWI and constantine so some christian dude im a christian in turkey so why im i not the most importent thing in turkish historyXD

Answer 9

How uptight is your teacher about the definition of history?  I've had some that were real uptight that pre-writing is pre-history and others that accepted history as anything that happened before.

If not so uptight: agricultural revolution

If uptight: Colombian Exchange

Answer 10

The First World War and The Second World War

Answer 11

My first impression would be to say the invention of fire, or writing but that all took place over time.  Probably the discovery (or rediscovery)* of America or the new world.  No one happening or invention has had the same effects and changes in world history, all religious events not considered.