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Post by clusium on Jun 3, 2020 22:47:40 GMT
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Post by Morgana on Jun 4, 2020 10:59:45 GMT
9. Though the Minoans had perhaps the first flushing toilet, these people had plumbing long before them. 10.
The Mesopotamian shekel – the first known form of currency – emerged nearly 5,000 years ago. The earliest known mints date to 650 and 600 B.C. in Asia Minor, where the elites of Lydia and Ionia used stamped silver and gold coins to pay armies.
5. I think the first sentence is a bit too much. 1. Seriously? Christianity? |
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Post by clusium on Jun 4, 2020 14:15:08 GMT
9. Though the Minoans had perhaps the first flushing toilet, these people had plumbing long before them. 10.
The Mesopotamian shekel – the first known form of currency – emerged nearly 5,000 years ago. The earliest known mints date to 650 and 600 B.C. in Asia Minor, where the elites of Lydia and Ionia used stamped silver and gold coins to pay armies.
5. I think the first sentence is a bit too much. 1. Seriously? Christianity? Yeah, the Romans had plumbing too. Yes, Christianity.  |
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Post by Winter_King on Jun 5, 2020 8:07:12 GMT
9. Though the Minoans had perhaps the first flushing toilet, these people had plumbing long before them. 10.
The Mesopotamian shekel – the first known form of currency – emerged nearly 5,000 years ago. The earliest known mints date to 650 and 600 B.C. in Asia Minor, where the elites of Lydia and Ionia used stamped silver and gold coins to pay armies.
5. I think the first sentence is a bit too much. 1. Seriously? Christianity?It's funny because it basically lists a bunch of inventions or creations. Good to know that the website includes Christianity as the top invention/creation. I would say that if Christianity was true, it could never be listed as triumph or an invention of Western civilization. |
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Post by Morgana on Jun 5, 2020 10:23:14 GMT
9. Though the Minoans had perhaps the first flushing toilet, these people had plumbing long before them. 10.
The Mesopotamian shekel – the first known form of currency – emerged nearly 5,000 years ago. The earliest known mints date to 650 and 600 B.C. in Asia Minor, where the elites of Lydia and Ionia used stamped silver and gold coins to pay armies.
5. I think the first sentence is a bit too much. 1. Seriously? Christianity?It's funny because it basically lists a bunch of inventions or creations. Good to know that the website includes Christianity as the top invention/creation. I would say that if Christianity was true, it could never be listed as triumph or an invention of Western civilization. That was my point too. |
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jun 5, 2020 14:32:43 GMT
Come on you know perfectly well that the only thing the west have given the world is slavery, torture, murder and war.
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Post by Catman on Jun 5, 2020 14:45:58 GMT
How could doughnuts not make that list?
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 8, 2020 1:39:10 GMT
Gutenberg's printing press. A literate middle class was born.
LIFE magazine listed that the #1 achievement of the previous millennium.
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Post by lunda2222 on Jun 19, 2020 22:14:48 GMT
It's funny because it basically lists a bunch of inventions or creations. Good to know that the website includes Christianity as the top invention/creation. I would say that if Christianity was true, it could never be listed as triumph or an invention of Western civilization. Especially since it originated in the Middle East.
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Post by quagsjonny on Jun 19, 2020 23:45:42 GMT
I think here in America it was Ford, Model T. Cars became affordable, citizens could travel and relocate. Interstates were built. A child from the east might visit Yosemite while not being rich. Sometimes we forget how large our country is, and how beautiful.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jun 20, 2020 2:49:54 GMT
Christianity is a Semitic religion.
The only contribution that the Greeks/Romans contributed to Christianity to make it truly 'Western' was ritualistic pedophilia.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 21, 2020 13:16:36 GMT
What about sliced bread?  |
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Jul 9, 2020 12:52:40 GMT
A somewhat Americocentric list, especially #3. In 1784, a fascinated Benjamin Franklin and a stereotypically skeptical John Adams were on hand in Paris (they were there to sign the treaty that ended the American Revolution) to witness two Frenchmen make history: Marquis d’Arlandes and Pilatre de Rozier became the first to slip the surly bonds of Earth, courtesy of a hot-air balloon.[17]The delicate 70-foot-tall contraption, precariously comprised of linen and varnished paper with hot air provided by burning straw (fire hazard much?), soared as high as 3,000 feet before touching down five miles away. “Aeronauts,”‘ as they were called, became instant heroes, with balloon motifs adorning everything fashions to furniture: inflated dresses,[18] balloon fans, powder boxes, chandeliers, needlepoint chairs.Though it took more than a century, Western civilization also made the next giant leap into the skies, when Wilbur and Orville Wright constructed the first successful airplane in 1903.[19] Though initially rudimentary, Western engineering advanced aeronautics exceptionally fast – quick enough for both sides to strafe and bomb each other in the Great War little more than a decade later.And then, 50 years later, the unthinkable: a man on the moon. All cynicism aside, take a moment and let it sink in that just 66 years after the first airplane flight, Western civilization flew people to the moon, allowed them to get out and bounce around, and brought them back alive. The achievement was so historic that “Men Walk on Moon”[20] became the largest font size (96 pt.) ever to grace the front page of the conventionally low-key New York Times. The font has been used just three times since,:
There have been several competing claims to the first aircraft flight. Some would discount the Wright brothers flight as a powered glide and not a practical design. However aircraft flight was a continuum with inventions around the world contributing to the eventual practical aircraft, which wasn't by the Wright Brothers. I would point out Louis Bleriot's aircraft, with the first use of controls that are still used today in almost all aircraft, and one of the first long distance flights, across the English Channel. Likewise space travel. America can be proud of the immense effort and money poured into the man in the moon but the Soviet Union led the way into space by contributing a massive string of firsts both before and after the Apollo program. |
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