Which non religious event has the biggest impact?

[The Basket]

Fall of Rome?
Bronze age collapse?
Which single event shaped the world so completely that we still feel it today?
Maybe the Viking invasion of anglo Saxon England?

We have to ignore religion as that would be an obvious answer.

 

[michaelmaltby]

the Black Death scourge.

 

[Marcel]

The Big Bang

 

[ARTESH]

I try to avoid this topic due to personal experience in Iran with "Religion".

 

[michaelmaltby]

copy that ....
... hard to argue with Marcel. ha ha ...
... but, more recently, adaptation to the most recent Ice Age ... the ice drove people (compressed society) to the high ground - Pyrenees, Carpathians, etc.
Migration on foot/skin boat was made easy by the huge fall in sea level, exposing coastal flats That passage - with nutritious food always within easy reach - has been underestimated. IMO.
The oldest human habitat (Monte Verde) is way at the south end of the Americas, IIRC.
The Apache of Arizona are 1st cousins of Northern Canada's Dene people, sharing the language.

Monte Verde: Our Earliest Evidence of Humans Living in South America

Monte Verde: Our Earliest Evidence of Humans Living in South America

www.discovermagazine.com

 

[fastmongrel]

The discovery of how to light fires. It's been pretty much gone downhill since then.

 

[at6]

Can I present Festivus?

 

[buffnut453]

How about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs? That was a pretty big impact.

Yes, I'll get my coat!!!

 

[pbehn]

How about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs? That was a pretty big impact.

Yes, I'll get my coat!!!

Happily, it just missed the visitors centre.

 

[pbehn]

Bronowski in "The Ascent of Man" mentioned a mutation of grasses that gave rise to todays crops, the seeds bound to the plant making them easier to cultivate and harvest, this allowed a surplus in agriculture which allowed cities and trade to grow. It also meant that the surplus had to be defended, so gave rise to walled cities like Jericho.

 

[Old Wizard]

Fall of Rome?
Bronze age collapse?
Which single event shaped the world so completely that we still feel it today?
Maybe the Viking invasion of anglo Saxon England?

We have to ignore religion as that would be an obvious answer.

Oh those Vikings...then they came back as the Normans and took it all.

 

[gumbyk]

Bronowski in "The Ascent of Man" mentioned a mutation of grasses that gave rise to todays crops, the seeds bound to the plant making them easier to cultivate and harvest, this allowed a surplus in agriculture which allowed cities and trade to grow. It also meant that the surplus had to be defended, so gave rise to walled cities like Jericho.

and gave rise to BEER!!!!

 

[pbehn]

and gave rise to BEER!!!!

Dr Jakob didnt say it but I am sure it was mans first and most important piece of genetic engineering.

 

[gumbyk]

Dr Jakob didnt say it but I am sure it was mans first and most important piece of genetic engineering.

The agrarian revolution did lead directly to having surplus to make more beer. It likely was made earlier (mead would have been common), but when you've got more grain to play with, and more time available because you don't have to go out and forage, you've got the time and resources to experiment.

 

[SaparotRob]

And use that time and surplus grain to come up with snacks, to go with that beer.

 

[gumbyk]

 

[Snautzer01]

language but beer is a close 2nd.

 

[The Basket]

language but beer is a close 2nd.

Language.

Good answer.

 

[Peter Gunn]

The "invention" of BACON.

*Mike drop*

 

[at6]

Chocolate covered Chicken Pot Pies.