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Vince278
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The space race was politics.
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Sir Og
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Lurking in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Jun 2001
time: 07:36
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If you want to single out an event however it makes more sence to choose the first event not some so called pinnacle that would never have happened had it not been for the first event that triggered the race.
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Vince278
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Before. With Goddard.
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Sir Og
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Lurking in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Jun 2001
time: 07:36
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NYE you have correctly pointed out that it would be more correct to wse the "space race" for the purposes of this list.
Space race IMO is:
-first man made object in space - Sputnik (SU)
-first man in space - Gagarin - Gagarin (SU)
-first man in open space - (SU)
-first man made object on another "planet" - (SU)
-first man on another "planet" - Apolo (USA)
-first space station - (SU)
Having this in mind it just seems not right to single out Apolo as the most important part of the space race.
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Sir Og
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Lurking in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Jun 2001
time: 07:36
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quote:
Originally posted by notyoueither
It was important, and certainly was a point of pride for those who did it, but it doesn't define the age like Apollo 11 did. |
For me Gagarin defines the space age. And so it does for millions of other people around the world.
I can not expect the people in America to place Gagarin before Armstrong considering the uncomparable amount of coverage in your media that the two events got. And since Gagarin was before Armstrong I think he should make the list.
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BeBro
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of the Krauts
Mar 2000
time: 06:36
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IMO the crusades (into the ME) as isolated events weren't that significant, after all the conquests in the ME were lost within less than 200 years, but I would put them into a bigger development which basically created Europe as an entity with a certain political, cultural and religious background (not geographically of course  ): Expansion of Latin christianity, esp. during the 11-13th century with conquest, conversion and colonization, in a quasi alliance of the church, military aristocracy and others (or at least with common interests in many fields). The reconquista belongs to that process as well as other things, for example the creation of christian kingsdoms in northern or eastern Europe.
Similar the rise of Islam (yes, I know it does not fit exactly into the "last 1000 years" category since it started much earlier, but just for the record ).
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Sir Og
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Lurking in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Jun 2001
time: 07:36
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I was mainly focusing on man's acheivemnts in space.
Speaking of animals what was the name of the chimp that the US sent in space.
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molly bloom
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
time: 15:36
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The Fall of Byzantium- it gave a huge impetus to finding other ways of getting highly prized spices and luxury goods from Africa, India and China/Japan to the growing western nations of Portugal, Spain, France and England, and of course the Netherlands when they threw off the Spanish yoke.
It also meant the eventual eclipse of Venice, despite her privileged trading role with the Ottoman Empire, as now states would get their commodities and foodstuffs directly rather than rely on Italian middlemen.
The adoption of Hindu/Arabic numerals by the West is highly important too, so let's all give a cheer to Bhaskar, Fibonacci and his trading partners in Islamic North Africa:
'Liber Abaci' (Book of the Abacus) by Fibonacci (1170-1250):
"The nine Indian numerals are: 1,2, 3 (et cetera)...with these nine and with the sign 0 which in Arabic is sifr, any desired number can be written. "
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