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  • Re: Re: What is the single most important invention that shaped the last millenn

    Pandios Manias

    Very true, and also the printing press allowed for mass printage of material that spurred revolutions or helped them. Read More

    January 9, 2008

  • Re: Re: What is the single most important invention that shaped the last millenn

    Pandios Manias

    I apologize, In my first sentence I meant millennium not century. Read More

    January 8, 2008

  • Re: What is the single most important invention that shaped the last millennium?

    Pandios Manias

    Did it have to be created within the last century as well? Although discovered before this past millennium, gunpowder has had, in my opinion the biggest effect on our entire millennium. No other invention affected warfare as much and as we all know, allot of our civilian tech comes from military innovation. I used to have a huge paper I wrote on the matter but I lost it but please let me know what you think. Read More

    January 8, 2008

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