24-09-2002 10:18									#31
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Agriculture, animal husbandry, metalworking, writing, counting/'rithmetic, the scientific method, the printing press, currency, the steam engine, the transistor, the radio, Maxwell's laws, antibiotics, calculus of infinitesimals

There are probably a couple I'm leaving out, but the ones above would make it onto any reasonable list.

	24-09-2002 10:26									#32
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Hah. of the 8 whose point of origin is fairly clearly fixed, 5 come from the British Isles, 1 comes from Italy, 1 from Germany and 1 from the US...interesting

	24-09-2002 11:25									#33
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The wheel. Dummies.

	24-09-2002 11:27									#34
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Language. Without it, we would just be rather bright monkeys.

	24-09-2002 12:21									#35
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television.
nothing changed the society more than television.
people spend their lives watching television, and if it's not on tv, it's not true. (and even more scary, if it is on tv, it is true)

	24-09-2002 12:25									#36
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Yes, but if we didn't have language, we wouldn't have television or anything else, for that matter.

	24-09-2002 12:28									#37
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GOD

	24-09-2002 12:31									#38
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quote: GOD

Yes, that was a really significant invention.

	24-09-2002 12:49									#39
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Warp drive. Otherwise the Vulcans wouldn't have stopped by and the Klingons would now rule Earth.

	24-09-2002 13:01									#40
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quote: Originally posted by GeneralTacticus Yes, that was a really significant invention.

It certainly was

	24-09-2002 15:00									#41
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quote: Originally posted by jimmytrick The wheel. Dummies.

The wheel is very important but in the New World none of the civilizations had the wheel. Not even a potters wheel.

	24-09-2002 15:02									#42
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Computer games.

	24-09-2002 17:15									#44
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quote: Originally posted by Frogger 1 comes from Italy,

Are you refering to radio?

Marconi (who mainly worked in England), and some German guy (Braun?) won the Nobel prize jointly. And we all know which semi-american the US Supreme court accredited as the inventor of the radio.

	24-09-2002 17:19									#45
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quote: Yes, but if we didn't have language, we wouldn't have television or anything else, for that matter.

why not?
I've seen much tv shows without any language.
And I doubt that most of the language used on tv is that intelectual

	24-09-2002 18:01									#46
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Agriculture, writing...

And my original contribution... flight.

	24-09-2002 18:05									#47
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Language
Writing
Printing Press
Radio
Television
PCs/internet

It all boils down to shared information/ideas

	24-09-2002 18:09									#48
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Bridge building, without it we couldn't build roads on river squares.

	24-09-2002 18:09									#49
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Writing is the #1 most important thing...

	24-09-2002 20:57									#50
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Language is definitely it.

By the way, take a look at the work of dr. Penny Patterson.
She is teaching gorilla's to talk (sign language).
If we're not careful, we will be living on the planet of the apes soon.

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condom

	25-09-2002 05:56									#52
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quote: why not? I've seen much tv shows without any language. And I doubt that most of the language used on tv is that intelectual

Because we wouldn't have been able to invent it, that's why.

quote: Writing is the #1 most important thing...

Doesn't language come first? After all writing was just a convenient way of keeping it around...

	25-09-2002 06:21									#53
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Individually wrapped cheese slices.

That and the theory of evolution......it was one of the leading factors in the popularity of atheism (at the least, confused Christianity )

	25-09-2002 06:26									#54
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quote: Originally posted by Ethelred The wheel is very important but in the New World none of the civilizations had the wheel. Not even a potters wheel.

Duh.

	25-09-2002 08:03									#55
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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin Are you refering to radio? Marconi (who mainly worked in England), and some German guy (Braun?) won the Nobel prize jointly. And we all know which semi-american the US Supreme court accredited as the inventor of the radio.

And I could also have granted Germany half-credit on calculus...

	25-09-2002 08:24									#56
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quote: Originally posted by jimmytrick Duh.

Gee Jimmy that comment had such meaning and said it so efficiently I have to propose that the, not really a word "duh", is the most important invention for civilization. After all, it made it possible for even those that have nothing whatsoever to say to pretend that they have said something that profoundly affected the discussion.

	25-09-2002 08:33									#57
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A well thought out and skillfully aplied "duh" is an advanced transitive bound object of the precedent.

In other words.... How did those New World Civs hold up versus the wheel wandering Old World Civs?

Thus the mostest invention the wheel, without with your generation have to, ride in the evil white man's car to the border crossing so you can go to your anger management classes.

	25-09-2002 08:49									#58
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quote: Originally posted by jimmytrick In other words.... How did those New World Civs hold up versus the wheel wandering Old World Civs?

Quite in well in regards to wheel use. Smallpox is not dependent on wheels and that was what devastated the Amerinds not Euros running around on chariots or in carts.

quote: Thus the mostest invention the wheel, without with your generation have to, ride in the evil white man's car to the border crossing so you can go to your anger management classes.

Is this the voice of experience speaking?

Jimmy, the point that you clearly failed to comprehend is that civilizations can exist without the wheel. Japan didn't use the wheel much either untill after it was forced open. They knew about it and I suppose they had the potters wheel but the only wheeled vehicle was the Emperor's. Rocky poorly roaded land with few if any bridges is not conducive to wheeled transport which was the primary use of the wheel untill then development of machines like the water wheel.

Now there is a very important invention, the water wheel is the first use of a non-living energy source for getting work done.

	25-09-2002 09:49									#59
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Organized religion has to be up there. Granted, other things (language, writing, etc.) had to be in place first, but not many things have shaped civilization in every corner of the globe so much.

	25-09-2002 09:52									#60
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Has anyone mentioned money?