Forgot about mosaic law.

But in many significant ways, Hammurabi's laws were first. You've heard in sharia law that a thief gets his hand cut, or in the bible an eye for am eye? Hammurabi has those principles within his laws.

As well as familial stuff, including matters of in-law family. Eerily specific stuff.

Hammurabi was not influential. The information that you provided was only discovered in the last 200 years and has had no affect on the events of the world. Tell me how his practices, laws, ect. can be influential if they are buried in the sand for thousands of years.

I gave one example that I'll use again : the Customary measurement system.

He put his foot down, tired of seeing all of these ships being different lengths thanks to the backyards Qubits system of measuring based on your hand's length. They measured it and it was used. It's a system used for 5000 years.

Edit : or 4000-ish years, i forgot when hammurabi reigned exactly.

Edited 6/26/2015 20:53:03

1792 - 1750 BC that would be. A little under 4000 years. Very few civilisations existed 5000 years ago.

Europe would be fractured. Without the church to guide the population morally there would be nothing stopping people from enslaving others (the church forbade enslaving Christians) or all around killing each other. Monasteries were safe havens and just look at the Renaissance, all the art is CHRISTIAN!

European renaissance really isn't that great. The rest of the world was doing just fine during the dark age.

Is Jesus a part of History? or is he part of the Bible?

Without Christianity, the Roman Empire would still fall and Europe would fall into the Dark Age and it would last much longer than in ours. Without Christianity, Islam would have never developed. However, Asia would possibly take its Place

Edited 6/27/2015 01:58:19

Since the question is 'in history', the answer depends on which time you are living in. Julius Caesar was arguably the most influential during his time, as was Genghis Khan or Napoleon, not a long time ago the actions of Adolf Hitler were shaping the world, and many others. Imperial Leaders yield massive influence politically, socially and culturally.

These days, with militaristic conquests viewed as 'aggression' and absolute leaderships viewed as 'dictatorships', along with democracy becoming the norm for government, the possibility of influence and power any particular figure can assert over his people and others has decreased. The only form of control over the 'masses' I still see would probably be the invisible religious empires, particularly Christianity and Islam, where followers could be found in almost every country, and thus for me, the answer limits down to the two central figures of the respective religions - Jesus or Muhammad.

Or Zoroaster. Y'know, the guy who popularized the idea of an eternal battle between good (Ahura Mazda/Yahweh/God/Allah/monotheistic interpretations of Krishna/etc.) and evil (Ahrimanyu/Satan/The Devil/demons/etc.). Major influence in all Abrahamic religions.

Here's another candidate.

Karl Marx

-Father of Marxist communism.

-influenced the revolutions of 1917-22, these influences bringing us the ussr, prc, the proxy wars of the cold war, and the rest of the lot.

-Great influence of current European political philosophy and Vladimir Lenin.

-essentially, his ideas are responsible for a century of upheaval. The world's current political state is molded by these ideas.

I'd say Lenin was more influential with regard to Marxism since he transformed Marx's theory into actual practice. It was Lenin's idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat under a vanguard party that's recognized as "communism" today, not Marx's notion of a stateless, classless, and moneyless society that would ultimately result from worker ownership of the means of production.

Maybe Mao was even more influential- he was the first to claim that peasants weren't simply a part of the petit-bourgeoisie but instead at least potential allies of the proletariat (which occurred due to necessity, as the proletariat had been essentially rendered powerless by imperialists and later nationalists before Mao came to power).

Just making a correction.

Hammurabi didn't create the customary system or put his foot down for measurement, that was confusion with King Henry I. However, it's highly likely that Hammurabi's people did use customary measurements!

Is Jesus a part of History? or is he part of the Bible?

Basically all scholars agree that he actually existed. All that's really up for debate is his divine nature as depicted in the bible, but that's really neither here nor there in terms of his influence.

Just replace incas with sumerians/babylonians.

Besides writing, offering religious polytheism, several advanced sciences and numerous other things (including astronomy), yeah. Incans were good warriors with interesting agriculture and architectural feats. Not much else to say. Aztecs and Mayans more notable by a long shot.

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Edited 7/1/2015 20:43:26

The guy who made printing press possible.

Mr Jesus Christ

Why no holocaust without Jesus?