You can agnosticize your pants off with Jesus Christ, but Jesus of Nazareth is overwhelmingly the most influential person in the world. So yeah, HIGH FIVE! =DÆsir said:As an agnostic I didn't think of Jesus, he was influential regardless of your religous stance. I like that thought.
Dang, man! I totally forgot about Mohammad! =( Yeah, you are almost right. He is pretty influential, but not as close as Jesus. Why? Compare where the Christian Europe and USA have ventured and where the Muslim Middle-East has stopped.Merentha said:Mohammad is arguably as influential.
So how did they influence the nowadays? Except for Moskau, of course.doorknobdeity said:Genghis Khan-- the Mongol Empire covered a huge area, influenced even more areas, and changed things dramatically for most of the area it covered.
Wow, I'm guessing you are a single male without any friends. XD Just kidding, mate. You really like fellow humans, do you?pentagathus said: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.
Thanks to 1) mass media 2) technology 3) infrastructure. 1 and 3 are through 2, so yeah... Progress. -_-Raz said:The further into history you go, the more influential they must've been.
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:So how did they influence the nowadays? Except for Moskau, of course.doorknobdeity said:Genghis Khan-- the Mongol Empire covered a huge area, influenced even more areas, and changed things dramatically for most of the area it covered.
I'm sure that is entirely Jesus' work. 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.Alfred said:Dang, man! I totally forgot about Mohammad! =( Yeah, you are almost right. He is pretty influential, but not as close as Jesus. Why? Compare where the Christian Europe and USA have ventured and where the Muslim Middle-East has stopped.Merentha said:Mohammad is arguably as influential.
Merentha said: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.