Ketil Z Malde wrote in alt.memetics:
>junkmail at moreira.mv.com (Alberto Moreira) writes:
>>> There has been no event that was more influential
>>The French revolution? The Russian revolution(s)? The English
>Magna Carta-"revolutions"? The German revolutionary election of Hitler?
>>> to so many people
>>The Chinese communuist "revolution"? The Industrial revolution?
>>> as the American Revolution.
>If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
Cute line there. :-)
As to the consequences of the American Revolution, even in regard to
those benefits I (an American) would place the American Revolution
marginally ahead of the Magna Carta - in fourth place among
second-millennium events.
The top three, in no particular order:
The Great Plagues (which is itself a plural event, and turned the
common peasant into a scarce resource)
The European invention and spread of the printing press
England's Glorious Revolution somewhere in the general area of 1680.
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