Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Ten most influential humans in history or of the last 2000 years

Here is my list, what’s yours?

1) Jesus - needs no explanation

2) Mohammed - see above

3) Alexander the Great - greatest general of all time whose exploits defined Western civilization and set the scene for all that followed

4) Bhudda - his religion defined the East

5) Julius Ceaser - maybe the most famous human ever. For 2000 years thousands of rulers have sought to emulate him and have used his very name as a title.

6) Martin Luther - his reformation has shaped the modern world.

7) Napoleon - he paved the way for modern Europe

8) Johannes Gutenberg - his invention ushered in the age of information

9) Henry Ford - his vision transformed the Industrial Age and brought mobility to the masses in America first and worldwide eventually

10) Adolph Hitler - WW II has loomed over the last 70 years and no political discussion lasts more than five minutes without his memory being invoked.

I think Genghis Khan works his way in there somewhere.

I honestly meant to include him...thought I had. Replace Ford or Hitler with him.

Zoroaster , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster

as far as i know ,Zoroaster created the first monotheistic religion.

I think Pasteur or the like needs to be included as well.

Zoroaster predates 2000 year limit. If we include him we should also include Confucius

yes , you are right.

There is more history before that arbitrary 2000 year limit than there is since. Who knows what great men went before and what were their exploits? We have some hints in places like Egypt, Persia, and China but we have no definitive knowledge.

Larry Nassir not in a good way!

Guessing Buddha does as well.

And I don't see my name on the list?

Alex, Buddha, and Caesar all predate 2,000 years. But it's a good list none the less.

Maybe bump Jesus down for Trump

Not by a lot. Call it 2,500 to 2,300 if it makes you feel better.

Marquis de Lafayette

Yer goin’ to hell..

I'd probably put Rockefeller on there before Ford. Or maybe Amschel Rothschild.

Alexander predated the 2000 years by more than 3 centuries. He might have been 'influential' but the name great certainly doesn't apply. He was a butcher who invaded many countries, killing the residents simply because his army was stronger. They had done nothing to him and politics wasn't part of it. He just wanted the 'gory glory' by killing tens of thousands who couldn't defend themselves from him.
Genghis Khan did the same.

300 years in the space of thousands is nothing. His actions, whether he intended it or not, created the Hellenistic world. Which of course, created the modern Western world.

Trump will pardon me.

Columbus.