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idk iraq? actually i think that rwanda would be a good 1.

How about the two biggest things that happened ever, both of the World Wars.

Invention of bubblegum, Stanley Cup, Rutherford B Hayes

Constantine The Great making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Johann Gutenberg inventing the printing press making literacy and education more widespread.

Cosimo de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici were at the head of the Florentine Renaissance who provided funding for scholars to research and buy ancient manuscripts, gave huge sums of money to the arts and are basically the fathers of the Italian Renaissance.

Confucius laying down the philosophic code for China as well as being a wise statesman who made great progress in government politics.

Francis Bacon wrote his "Essays" which was an attempt to write down all the knowledge of the world into one volume. Including philosophy, Science, history, etc.

Pretty much anything on the Roman Empire from it's aqueducts, roads, representational government during the Republican period.

The list goes on. Check out Will Durants books "The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time" or "Heroes of History."