This is in response to cliffelam's post: http://hubski.com/pub?id=20501

Here is my list. I'm not convinced on the order, and I feel like I am probably missing some super important ones:

1. Inception of writing

2. Invention of printing press

3. Scientific Revolution

4. Modern medicine

5. Inception of agriculture

6. Emergence of the internet

7. The Magna Carta

8. The Greek Classical Era

9. Contributions of Isaac Newton to science and math

10. 20th century Civil Rights movements

AnSionnachRua: Abstaining from a discussion about what constitutes "positive", and coalescing to the constraint to ten things...

1. The use of fire.

2. The use of clothing.

3. The diaspora from Africa.

4. The invention of agriculture, perhaps, though it may also be on the other list (http://www.hubski.com/pub?id=1852).

5. The invention of writing.

6. The development of artificial fertiliser (again, this could easily be on the other).

7. Electrification.

8. The Enlightenment.

9. Epigamic differentiation (love).

10. Nuclear fusion, hopefully.


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