His actions of getting a sandwich after his first failed attempt of killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, literally just did a domino effect onto BOTH World Wars.
I can’t think of one name but someone who participated in the early ages of exploration, eventually lead to European global colonisation, the creation of the USA, Brazil etc the partitioning of Africa and Asia, entrenched capitalism as the global economic system as well as creation a more economically developed global north vs a less economical developed global south.
I think we probably won’t ever know his name because he probably never had one. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, one man made the decision to leave the shores of the early African continent. That decision led to humans populating more continents and springing up settlements that grew to become civilisations.
Thomas Midgley Jr. He came up with both lead in gasoline & chlorofluorocarbons aka the stuff that punched a hole in the ozone layer.
His legacy has, arguably, resulted in the death of more people than any other man in history. The damage of both his inventions were global in their adoption & so devastating that the world, universally, banned them both. Very, very few people have ever or will ever be able to make the same claim.
You have to apply the multiplier effect of how long ago they were around and how much difference time would make.
From a pure numbers perspective, Gengis Khan, Charlamagne etc are reported to have huge numbers of direct descendants.
In Europe it’s reported that everyone could trace their ancestors back to Charlamagne in the 8th century. That’s about 60 generations back or so, so if you go 2^60 you will end up with about one quintillion, one hundred and fifty-two quadrillion, nine hundred and twenty-one trillion, five hundred billion ancestors. A LOT.
Obviously this is way way more than the people who have lived in Europe in that time (or ever) and so in theory everyone does descend directly from Charlamagne. They also descend from every peasant who had children who had children etc.
So you find someone from way way back, and they have the most impact, as without them no one around today would be the same. Goes for everyone living and those who have died.
Kaiser Wilhem. No WWI, no treaty of Versailles, no rise of fascism, no Hitler. An entire generation of Europeans alive who wouldn’t have been and their kids don’t have to fight in WWII, no holocaust. 20th and 21st centuries would be completely different.
any recommendations of a good book about ganghas kahn for somebody who really knows nothing about this? I am just so intrigued that the comments are in consensus here and would like to educate myself.
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Hitler maybe?
Isaac Newton
Adam
hulagu khan
Historically: Hitler
21st century / recently: Osama
Einstein
Churchill, Germany would have won the war with disastrous consequences for the world.
Gavrillo Princip.
His actions of getting a sandwich after his first failed attempt of killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, literally just did a domino effect onto BOTH World Wars.
Isaac Newton or Marie Curie
Honestly, Genghis Khan. His DNA is in 1 in 200 men alive today. Imagine how different the world map (and gene pool) would look.
Mitochondrial Eve
Jesus. If Christianity never existed, science would be 1000 years more advanced.
Jesus
Emperor Constantine Christianity would’ve never taken off as the person also said about Jesus science would be 1000 years ahead
I think there’s a good case for Alexander Hamilton.
ron’s. the king just tidies up loose ends he’s too incompetent to get to; his personality sets the stage.
Karl Marx maybe.
Muhammed.
Newton
Jesus Christ!
Julius Caesar
I can’t think of one name but someone who participated in the early ages of exploration, eventually lead to European global colonisation, the creation of the USA, Brazil etc the partitioning of Africa and Asia, entrenched capitalism as the global economic system as well as creation a more economically developed global north vs a less economical developed global south.
I think we probably won’t ever know his name because he probably never had one. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, one man made the decision to leave the shores of the early African continent. That decision led to humans populating more continents and springing up settlements that grew to become civilisations.
Every other thing can be traced to that.
The Roman soldier who decapitated Archimedes, who begged the soldier to wait so he can finish writing one of his proofs – he didn’t.
Science and engineering would have taken giant leaps and may have changed the arc of civilization.
Genghis Khan.
Hell the population to this day still shares DNA with him if not mistaken.
Gutenberg. The invention of the printing press changed the course of humanity.
Stalin
Christopher Columbus, Newton, Euler, Hitler
Thomas Midgley Jr. He came up with both lead in gasoline & chlorofluorocarbons aka the stuff that punched a hole in the ozone layer.
His legacy has, arguably, resulted in the death of more people than any other man in history. The damage of both his inventions were global in their adoption & so devastating that the world, universally, banned them both. Very, very few people have ever or will ever be able to make the same claim.
Alexander the Great probably
You have to apply the multiplier effect of how long ago they were around and how much difference time would make.
From a pure numbers perspective, Gengis Khan, Charlamagne etc are reported to have huge numbers of direct descendants.
In Europe it’s reported that everyone could trace their ancestors back to Charlamagne in the 8th century. That’s about 60 generations back or so, so if you go 2^60 you will end up with about one quintillion, one hundred and fifty-two quadrillion, nine hundred and twenty-one trillion, five hundred billion ancestors. A LOT.
Obviously this is way way more than the people who have lived in Europe in that time (or ever) and so in theory everyone does descend directly from Charlamagne. They also descend from every peasant who had children who had children etc.
So you find someone from way way back, and they have the most impact, as without them no one around today would be the same. Goes for everyone living and those who have died.
More recently, Trump
genghis kang.
Jesus
Genghis Khan for sure.
Jesus
Probably Hitler. Without him, the 20th century looks completely different
Neils Bohr….he’ll be even even bigger as we moved forward
Chinggis Khan , first of his name. Conqueror of the steppe, the east and the west, ruler of the universe , Khan of all Khans.
Kaiser Wilhem. No WWI, no treaty of Versailles, no rise of fascism, no Hitler. An entire generation of Europeans alive who wouldn’t have been and their kids don’t have to fight in WWII, no holocaust. 20th and 21st centuries would be completely different.
Probably Genghis Khan
Let’s hope it’s not Strump
pablo escobar ❤️🔥
Aristotle.
The first human
Muhammad. Completely changed the cultural and religious landscape of half the world in only a few decades.
I love that the answers are not some Austrian Painter with small moustache
Vasily Arkhipov
Attila the Hun or Alexander the Great. Stalin or Hitler.
okay semi off topic so I’m sorry but-
any recommendations of a good book about ganghas kahn for somebody who really knows nothing about this? I am just so intrigued that the comments are in consensus here and would like to educate myself.
The first one
Jesus.
No christianity over our last 2000 years would probably completely rewrite the geopolitics of the entire world today.