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Merlkir
I'm too tired to think about the other four, but my 1.) would be Alexander of Macedon.
Mohammad is arguably as influential.
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Genghis Khan-- the Mongol Empire covered a huge area, influenced even more areas, and changed things dramatically for most of the area it covered.
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Thats a fairly pointless thing to say. Noone matters sfter enough time.
1) Whichever of the first monkey people decided to use tools.
2)Whichever of the fisrt monkey people decided to group together instead of running away when attacked
And so forth.
1) Whichever of the first monkey people decided to use tools.
2)Whichever of the fisrt monkey people decided to group together instead of running away when attacked
And so forth.
Indirectly, they changed the political and cultural background of the entire eastern segment of Europe and the Middle East. They also completely altered the course of Chinese, well, everything.Alfred said:
I'm sure that is entirely Jesus' work.Alfred said:
I'd argue the other way, Mohammad more directly influenced the course of medieval history. He directly perpetuated the rapid expansion of Islam in Saudia Arabia and deliberately set the stage for its expansion across northern Africa and the Middle East. Jesus, on the other hand, did nothing of the sort. His death was entirely ignored until about 250 CE and even then it was more important in the sense that other people used his name for rallying points, rather than anything he actually did. 
Merentha said:
And without that rallying point, Western history as we know it would not have been the same. No Roman Catholic Church, which was obviously kinda of influential. No Crusades. Europe may even have been brought into Muslim control in the 700s or sometime after(I'm a little skeptical about that but can't deny the possibility). This indirect influence was more powerful than the direct influence of most, if not all, of the important figures in the West.
I am not denying that, but the exact same claim can be made of Islam. Arguing that Jesus was much, much more influential than Mohammad is Eurocentrism at its best.