Moments in Human History that changed the World?

Well what are some moments, that if went differently would have a gigantic impact on the world today?

The Cultural Revolution.

Though technically speaking, there are long lists of pivotal points in history, big and small, that branched out and changed the path that would have been or could have been.
Our posts here could be a slight push that changes things in the future that could have been.

Almost every every major event in history "changed the world" in some massive way.

Here's a short list:
-Battle of Thermopylae
-Alexander the Great's conquest of Asia
-Rise of the Roman Empire
-The early death of Alexander the Great and the ensuing turmoil
-Fall of the Roman Empire
-Creation of the Printing Press
-Protestant Reformation
-Crusades
-Discovery of the New World
-WWI
-WWII
-Inter-war period, mostly the Great Depression and rise of Fascism.
-Writing of the Communist Manifesto
-Russian Revolution
-Fall of the USSR
-Chinese Civil War
-Conquest/Colonization of the New World
-Scramble for Africa
-Invention of the Radio, which had considerably more of an impact than the telephone or television
-Space Race
-Dissolution of the remaining European Empires (Britain and France mostly) after WWII
-Industrial Revolution
-Invention of Farming
-Invention of Capitalism
-American Revolution
-Enlightenment

I'd go on, but I think I've made my point.

Which I pointed out in my post???
But a good list and I am pretty sure that you came up with those without having to look them up.
Which just punctuates the point that there are so many to consider that some are actually well-known.
Good job.

I'd add the Renaissance to that list as well. But really, any significant invention or war has had a huge impact on the world, not to mention "accidental" discoveries.

Battle of Teutoburg Forest.

Gunpowder has killed more people then any disease or other weapon before it.

-Fall of Constantinople and consequently with that the discovery of the New World.

Really there's just so much moments that happened in history that were crucial, but if they didn't happen or happened in a different way than the world could be a much more different place.

You crazy? How did this change the world?

An entire roman Legion lost didn't put much faith for the romans trying to cross the Rhine river.

Discovery/use of fire

Forgive if my history is massively fucked up beyond belief and everything I have ever know is wrong, but the Romans... their empire was based in Europe, wasn't it? And the thread title is "Moments in Human History that changed the World?" isn't it?

The amercian revolution
The russian rev.
The the use of atom bombs in Japan
The soviet's space flight and The lunarlanding

One could argue that, if Romans had invaded and settled Germany and beyond. It would have chanced how history played out, thus chanced the world.

But that event did not have a significant repurcussion on anyone outside of Europe at the time. It is not enough to say that if it didn't happen then it would have huge impacts because it did happen and therefore it had no impacts of the event of it not happening.

That fucking mind-fucked me writing that out, hope it makes more sense than I think.

Does it matter if it didn't have repercussions THEN. I mean if we went by your logic, the discovery of agriculture doesn't matter because it only happened THEN in a small area, when in reality after a while it chanced the world.

It did have huge impact when it happened, Rome" turtled" (did you just mindfuck your self, or have I done that)

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize the Roman Empire was just another country that spammed more than 1,000 years of lifetime therefore making it the longest lasting empire in the world. I'm also sorry that if they didn't exist most of known Europe would of course have greek culture, philosophy and engineering because you know, Rome didn't change anything in the World, only in Rome. Their knowledge totally didn't die out when the barbarians invaded the Western Empire and until the Fall of Constantinople only the Byzantine Empire held actual knowledge about the old classics and etc. They also totally didn't influence anything in the countries that would derive from them, countries like France, Spain, Portugal, England...those countries were totally created out of the blue with their culture coming from nowhere and then they simply just conquered most of the world while Germany was a piece of thousands of small petty kindgoms.

The Romans at this time were colonizing German land north of the Rhine. After this humiliating defeat, the Romans never tried to cross the Rhine in force to establish a permanent presence.

Now let's say the Battle of Teutoburg forest doesn't happen (which if the Romans had been commanded by even a semi-competent commander, the ambush could have been easily avoided). The Romans then continue to colonize territory North of the Rhine, and keep expanding, even slightly into south western Russia. (historically, they had a presence in the Crimea). Essentially, you would not have germanic tribes such as the Franks, Vandals, and possibly even the Goths, come invade and eventually cause the collapse of the Roman Empire. The Huns might still come, but the Romans would be in a much better position to handle the Huns, and the Huns would not pose much of a threat. Now to the east...

The Romans would have been able to divert considerably more attention to Persia, as there was historically, always a massive kingdom in Persia bashing heads with the Roman, and later Byzantine Empire. With almost all their attention focused on Persia, they might be able to silence, and possibly even conquer Persia. This would bring them almost into direct contact with the people of the east, more importantly, India and China (Crassus wanted to conquer India after conquering Persia, so the Romans did have some interest in India). This could alter the history of India and possibly even China. Now on to the new world.

Now assuming that the Roman empire still exists, two things could happen with the discovery of the new world. Either one, the Romans never bother to look for another sea route to India, because they would have a direct land route under the empire's control, and thus never discover the new world, or two, well, they would discover it. Now the Romans discovering it and subsequently colonizing it would effect the native populace. Corn might be traded with the Romans, and the Romans might give horses and such (kinda like the columbian exchange), and again, you get a different history panning out in the new world, maybe with the Romans treating the native americans better than what was actually done by the Europeans in real life.


I think Harry Turtledove made a book about the Romans winning at Teutoburg forest. You should check it out.

Fun fact, the Muslims translated, kept alive, and discovered more Greek literature then the Christians.

Johannes Gutenberg inventing of mechanical movable type printing press in 1436.