re: Spinoff: 3 most significant historical events since the year 1500

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Tenochtitlan falling to Spain
Whataburger on Siegen Lane
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If BR ever gets a loop, it’d be in that list

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Gun powder

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Predates 1500

Antibiotics

Refrigeration

The first Engine

Think those are the three most importan t

1)Collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919, established 600+ years earlier (during the Byzantine (Roman)Empire), leading to just about all of the Middle East/Muslim problems worldwide today.

2)Establishment of the transatlantic/colonial slave trade in the 1700s, leading to just about all of the racial/African problems today.

3)Rise/Fall of Communism and the creation of a nuclear world, which will either keep the peace or devolve the world into the next stone age, depending on the person you speak to.

Honorable mention: Creation of the internet. Never before in the history of mankind have ideas been able to be spread so easily and freely with as little control as there is today.

Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip

Importation of Lenin to Tzarist Russia by the Germans

Development of the V2 rocket by Werner Von Braun

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If BR ever gets a loop, it’d be in that list

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At least we are at the west end of the Hammond loop.

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Ability to navigate on the seas out of sight of land.

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This was invented before the year 1500

European colonization in the Americas (I know it technically started before 1500, but the real colonization wasn't until later)

Antibiodicts, vaccines, and similar (Penicillin could've saved 50 million people during the European plague)

If you subscribe to the theory that WWI and WWII were connected (which I think most people do), then the assassination of Franz Ferdinand

All the battles for Britain. Laid the foundation for western culture.

Man on the Moon eclipses all other events

Magellan's crew circling the globe is #2...

#3 is likely the internet