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So I'm was watching Hamilton again and a question occured to me: The Revolutionary War created an entirely new nation that completely changed the world. So since that time, has there been an event as significant to the entire planet?

Someone once became the prince of a town called Bel Air.

I'd call the sacking and burning of the Library of Alexandria a significant world changing event.

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Countries dissolve and pop up all the time.

But that's a great tune
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you were raised in the us, werent you tc?

nations have existed for centuries that shaped civilization much more than the us. if the us hadnt begun shortly before the industrial revolution, it wouldnt have really accomplished anything more than any other country.

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Well back then it took over a month to cross the ocean so I would say yes.

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lolife67 posted...

So since that time, has there been an event as significant to the entire planet?

I missed this part of the topic. If you want to be pedantic, climate change has far greater ramifications to world events than the revolutionary war. Even without that, WW1 and 2 were far more incredible on a world stage than the revolutionary war.

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Bananana posted...

you were raised in the us, werent you tc?

nations have existed for centuries that shaped civilization much more than the us. if the us hadnt begun shortly before the industrial revolution, it wouldnt have really accomplished anything more than any other country.

Yes I am. And the question was about AFTER the Revolutionary War.

ImAMarvel posted...

All that fucking information and data, lost forever. Goddamn.

Yeah, that's crazy to think about.

The dropping of the atomic bomb permanently changed the face of war and politics.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

The dropping of the atomic bomb permanently changed the face of war and politics.

WW 2 seems like the best candidate to me.

French Revolution was probably more meaningful for western civilization than the American Revolution was

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lolife67 posted...

WW 2 seems like the best candidate to me.

WW2 is important yes, but if the bomb had never been developed and dropped, the entire post war world looks very different. There were multiple points afterward where, if not for the threat of nuclear warfare, WW3 kicks off.

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World War 1.

Without World War 1 the entire 20th century plays out completely differently.

No Hitler, no rise of Fascism, no Communist Revolutions, no splitting of the Ottoman Empire, etc.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

WW2 is important yes, but if the bomb had never been developed and dropped, the entire post war world looks very different. There were multiple points afterward where, if not for the threat of nuclear warfare, WW3 kicks off.

The use of nuclear bombs would be a part of WW 2, wouldn't it?