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Cedar
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Location: In front of my computer, again.
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No particular order:
Metal moveable type (dispersal of knowledge)
Founding of the great religions (because they impact a lot of people/culture and still do)
Computer technology (damn, these things are great and I mean the internet as part of the package)
Understanding of fertility/birth control
Television (not in a good way, but in a historically significant it impacts the life even of people who don't have one because of the way it transmits cultural knowledge and conditions responses, buying habits, etc.)
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Cedar wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
-invention of the printing press (which probably coincided with the printing of the Bible but was a greater event)
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No time to read through the entire thread, but, uh metal moveable type was invented in Korea long before Guttenberg and there is evidence he already knew of the technology existing in Asia when he invented the printing press. You live in Korea, you should know this... 1234 unless I'm remembering wrong. |
Korea (or manchuria, whatever it was) didn't do squat with movable type, so in itself, i wouldn't say it was a top of the list item. Literacy and education for the masses is much more significant. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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6. Ecologism |
you embiggenned that perfectly cromulent word. |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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As I'm sure you're aware, there's a significant difference between ecology and ecologism, a distinction I was careful to make.
Try not to make words up.
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| BS.Dos. wrote: |
As I'm sure you're aware, there's a significant difference between ecology and ecologism, a distinction I was careful to make.
Try not to make words up.
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Ok, that's perfectly stromulous. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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rhinosaur
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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In no particular order:
Cultivation of crops (hunting & gathering sux!)
Metallurgy
Electricity
Organized Religion (all of them)
Textiles |
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onepence
Joined: 04 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:52 am Post subject: |
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In no particular order:
Cultivation of crops (hunting & gathering sux!)
Metallurgy
Electricity
Organized Religion (all of them)
Textiles |
yes .. pretty decent list ...
in fact we have really been enjoying all replies in this thread ...
please feel to continue on with individual lists ...
delete ... add ...
and/or just general commentary is fine by us ...
in the above list we would fine ...
Cultivation of crops and textiles to fall into one group {event}
Metallurgy & Electricity is likewise one group {event}
it is interesting to note ... in our origianl list
we had the cotton gin as a great event ...
odd ... though ... how even agricultural events can be grouped into
a bigger classification of "technology"
so far we find very little discussion in the greatest events in history
in the areana of the visual arts ... ie paintings ,scuplture, and to some extent music ... chopin as a great event ... etc ... |
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onepence
Joined: 04 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
| Cedar wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
-invention of the printing press (which probably coincided with the printing of the Bible but was a greater event)
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No time to read through the entire thread, but, uh metal moveable type was invented in Korea long before Guttenberg and there is evidence he already knew of the technology existing in Asia when he invented the printing press. You live in Korea, you should know this... 1234 unless I'm remembering wrong. |
Korea (or manchuria, whatever it was) didn't do squat with movable type, so in itself, i wouldn't say it was a top of the list item. Literacy and education for the masses is much more significant. |
yes ... great events in Literacy should be considered / discussed
Shakespeare ... Mark Twain ... whom else ... anyone ... ??
in the top Five ... printing of the Bible does also represent all Literacy events
in some respects printing of the Bible does also represents music
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~colmusic/dossi.htm
so .. in brief ... printing of the Bible , not simply moveable type , huge event |
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rhinosaur
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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Hmmm arts....
Universal music composition... the acceptance of a singular form of musical language around the world..pretty significant for the arts...not a singular event but something I imagine took some time, someone came up with the language at some point.
Photography.... a fusion of technology and art...I guess it falls more into technology but damn what a cool invention!
Impressionism... An evolution in painting that took bold and unpopular steps away from tradition in the portrait/realism world.
Monet, Manet, Renoir....appreciated well after their time. |
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mishlert
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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