Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Ten Incredibly Significant Moments in World History

Again, the good folks at List Universe had an interesting list on December 10th.

www.listserve.com

10. RENAISSANCE (1483-1513)--


9. ROMAN REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE (100 BC-100 AD)-- Borrowed heavily from Greeks, but expanded especially in engineering and architecture.


8. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (1855-1866)-- Darwin, Lister, Pasteur and others.


7. AGE OF INVENTION (1870-1890)-- electric light, alternating current, automobile, telephone, steam and gas turbines, phonograph among many others.


6. ASTRONOMY, MECHANICS AND LITERATURE (1580-1610)-- Galileo's telescope, Kepler's planetary theory, Don Quixote, Shakespeare

Of course, on the List Universe, each of these has a picture and much more information. This is just a quick look. You can also subscribe to the feed which I would recommend.

Agree or disagree, it gets you to thinking. I can agree with all of these.

Top Five Tomorrow. --Cooter

No comments: