societal advances smackdown (0-1750 AD vs 1751 AD- present)
 

Would you say that the advances made in 'the world' prior to 1750 AD are more significant than those made in the last 259 years?

which would you point to as examples?

I don't think I'm smart enough to be here. This could be a great discussion though. I looked for some kind of timeline but had no luck.

No question we can kill more people in less time.

a) Why 1750?
b) Do you mean "the dawn of time to 1750" or "0 AD - 1750 AD"?

By advances, do you mean discoveries or inventions/creations?

you're on your own to interpret the question as it is phrased.

lol, That got you to change your usertitle?


Then I'll go with FIRE! Whenever we figured out that one wins :D

hmmm. I would say some of the earliest discoveries/inventions were the most important, like the discovery of how to make and use fire, or the advent of the wheel. Is that what you mean?

And sex. ;)

Also, agriculture, the aquaducts, plumbing and the baths...

medicine, contraception, tools, writing, mathematics.

I'll stop now. :D

I did mean the dawn of time....but that's not what i wrote.....

The official list from Civilization 4 (and in parens, some things the technologies lead to)

Pre-1750 (approx):

Fishing
Wheel (roads)
Agriculture
Hunting
Mysticism
Mining
Sailing
Pottery
Animal Husbandry
Archery
Meditation (Buddhism)
Polytheism (Hinduism)
Masonry
Horseback Riding
Priesthood (temples)
Monotheism (Judaism)
Bronze Working (slavery)
Writing (libraries)
Metal Casting
Iron Working
Alphabet
Mathematics
Monarchy
Compass
Literature
Calendar
Construction
Currency (markets, grocers)
Machinery
Drama
Engineering
Code of Laws (caste system, Confusianism)
Feudalism (serfdom)
Optics
Music
Philosophy (Taoism, Pacifism)
Theology (Christianity)
Guilds
Divine Right (Islam)
Paper
Banking
Nationalism (nationhood)
Printing Press
Education
Astronomy
Gunpowder

Post-1750 (approx);

Military Tradition
Constitution (representation)
Replaceable Parts
Liberalism (free speech, free religion)
Economics (free markets)
Democracy (universal sufferage, emancipation)
Rifling
Corporation
Chemistry
Steam Power
Scientific Method
Steel
Assembly Line (factory)
Communism
Physics
Biology
Railroad
Flight
Artillery
Fascism
Electricity
Medicine (environmentalism)
Combustion
Rocketry
Industrialism
Fission (nuclear power, The Bomb)
Refrigeration
Radio
Satellites
Plastics
Computers
Mass Media
Composites
Fiber Optics (Internet)
Ecology
Genetics
Robotics

What about all the things Ayla invented? That list alone would be longer than what UT just posted....