<p>I put the exchange and translation of knowledge from the Muslim world that took place in Toldeo, Spain. Unoriginal, but it had a huge impact on the Western World, in bringing back many ideas that had been forgotten as "un-Christian" during the dark ages. I don't think this question is all that important anyway. We'll see how it goes. This is probably the weirdest question I had on any app this year. At least it was short. Stanford requires 3 essays that are a paragraph long. I got deferred from Stanford.</p>
<p>most important moment was when pangaea divided into two subcontinents</p>
<p>I read HP book five in 4 hrs.</p>
<p>I put Magna Carta.</p>
<p>It took me a few days to read HP5, but it's not my fault. I went at midnight to get the book with my sister, then when we got home, she read it for a few hours because she was about to leave on a trip with people from her college where they go live in the woods. Then the next day I had to compete with my brother to read it, and since it was technically my book, I usually won. BUT then I had to work...so it took me a few days. Anyway, reading it like that stretches it out for me so that I can truly savor it.... I can't wait until July 16!</p>
<p>ok people, it's ELECTRICITY-Benjamin Franklin</p>
<p>thats why we're living in 2004 today,, its different from 1869. Coz we have computers and tv and lights and stuff. if it's not for electricity, everyone would be farming right now. It modernized the worlddd</p>
<p>chantown - i wrote the same thing. then after i sent in my application, i realized Ben Franklin founded Penn (i knew he did before, i just didn't connect the two) and now I'm afriad they'll think i'm trying too hard to suck up!</p>
<p>who else chose electricity?</p>
<p>"adam and eve eating the fruit in the garden of eden
the concept of right and wrong, good and evil, and sin comes into the world"</p>
<p>I don't think this counts as history.</p>
<p>the invention of toilet paper....think about it!!</p>
<p>I put something like, I would like to say the first human invention which was probably some flint tool because it led to dawn of human thought, creativity, and reason but that would not do full justice to all animals on this planet so I will say the invention of art because all creatures can appreciate beauty.</p>
<p>Now how you define art is up to you.<br>
Nature could be art- it could refer to the beginning of time or when the first animal drew something. art can even refer to music.</p>
<p>anything can be counted as history! if you put the adam and eve tree then that is what you believe is the greatest moment in hisotry and there is nothing wrong with it. Because it is all theory-it doesn't have to be a concrete date-it is the idea that counts. They just want to see how you think and what kind of person you are. Actually i thik people who write stuff like founding of electricity or something about ben franklin are not sucker ups. They are the bolder people, and if i were the adcom I would be amused and a little admirant of their gut. But actually since the adcom probably gets a number of those every year, it probably loses its novelty. However i didnt put that because to me that is not the greatest moment in history.</p>
<p>the ones that i would think are sucker ups (but this is just my thought) are those that try to be unique or "funny" by putting something like the invention of cake because cake is yummy and it has really changed culture and brought a new meaning to celebrations or something of the sort.</p>
<p>besides electricity, i would say</p>
<p>the establishment of christianity</p>
<p>That changed everythingggg, because basically up till now, out whole society has a big part on religion</p>
<p>not to be offensisve, but i would disagree. since the beginning of complex civilization, there has been religion. different religion from what we have now ofcourse. all religion has served very similar purposes in our society. there is nothing particular about christiany-well ofcourse there is but there is to for all other religions.</p>
<p>with human conflicts new religions or forms or sectors of religion are formed. the same goes for christianity. while our world is now so much more interconnected between vastly different cultures and christianity has spread much-it is not the work of christianity or religion. that was the result or a subconsequence. It was the work of advancement and conquest-the eternal human quest for power</p>
<p>thats true lol</p>
<p>dang, sounds like a bunch of people chose electricity.</p>
<p>The discovery/invention of pennicillin by Fleming as an antibiotic...simple solution to infection that has saved millions of lives.</p>
<p>Democracy people!!! If not for the ancient Greeks we'd still be ruled by an emperor today. Waaaaiiiit, maybe we still are.</p>
<p>good call, mradio. </p>
<p>anybody else read "Master Harold"... and the boys? it's a play by athol fugard. i'm not a huge fan of it, actually, had to read it for class. but i was just reminded of it cuz of what amy24 said about fleming</p>
<p>i put when cave people began drawing on the walls, which led to writing, which leds to so many other things, such as propaganda and books</p>
<p>how would newton have made his ideas known if he could only talk about them?
someone would have to have a really good memory to remember all his mathematical formulas, concepts, and scientific accomplishments</p>
<p>FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! suprised no one put that</p>