[Mid] History's Top ten Hits (was: Re-emergence of the Wonderpest)

>So, I turn it over to you folks: Name one or two events that ought to be
>on the Top Ten Plus Two list, and name an important technological advance.

1) The encounter of the New World by Lief Ericsson. Although colonization
failed, American resources were exploited up through Columbus's "discovery"
by Scandinavians and English fishermen but everyone just thought it was
just [art of an outlying island chain and not a new continent. especially
important when you consider Columbus's sojourn in Iceland where he
apparently received rutters and sailed south to avoid those inconvenience
islands

2) The mini-Ice Age, which disrupted not merely exploration but changed
economic patterns in Europe.

Narrowing things down to a single technological innovation is impossible;
the best I can do is to list three:

The discovery of eye glasses in the 12th century
The discovery of gunpowder in the 13th century
The development of movable type in the 16th century

Folki

From: Folo Watkins <folo@advancenet.net>
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