Most Important People in History

Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu or Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Once he did it, 37 more did in the next year and hundreds after that.

Until he changed their belief it would never have happened.

On second thought, no, no athletes should be on this quiz at all.

Most influential person in the 20th century? Definitely not. Most consequential person of the 20th century? Not #1, but he might be up there.

That said, this is a very impressive list. It's a hard thing to assemble and in most respects it's very good.

And who is Pelé? only Messi could be on that short list of athletes.

Al-Khwaritzmi should make the cut also. For such thing of The Numbers

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For the one Japanese person, I probably would have chosen Tokugawa Ieyasu (reunified Japan after centuries of regional warfare) or maaaaybe Murasaki Shikibu (author of the Tale of Genji) over Sakamoto, but I do agree with the choice to go with him over the Emperor Meiji--anyone who's studied Japanese history knows the emperor is never the most influential person.

you took off Moses for being a figure of mythology. (good call) You should have also taken off Jesus for the same reason. We don't even know if he was a real person let alone much about him or how influential he really was. Or at least put him below Paul. There's a growing scholarly consensus that Muhammad should fall in to the same category, as there is almost nothing written about Muhammad that actually survives from his lifetime. (though there is a lot more than we have for Jesus, aka nothing)

You left Pincus on the quiz?? He absolutely doesn't belong. This was one of the dumbest things about the original quiz. The man is the CO-inventor of combined oral contraceptives. Not even the sole inventor. Not the inventor of birth control (which had been being practiced for hundreds of years various ways). As I said on the previous quiz, you could have given his spot to Margaret Sanger, who underwrote his

I agree, that Paulus had a bigger influence on the christian doctrine than any theoretical predecessor. That is again the question, what kind of influence is meant and to be held higher. There are also a lot of figures of early christianity with a similar record than him, that were one by one purged from the records, yet who still had influence on the legacy.

If you'd apply higher standards for historicity, that's good, but I also think it is interesting to see, how people asses that question from a more personal point of view.

In short I see your point and could see it either way it just seems inconsistent to me to remove Moses from the list entirely, and then rank Jesus #1.

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I know I don't follow sports much but what makes him more influential than Mozart or Thomas Jefferson or some other people not here?

It's sad how few women there are (not a critic to you, it's obviously true to reality)

Also pedant alert. You can't invent evolution. And to be accurate Darwin didn't even "invent" the theory of Evolution. That was already around. He came up with the mechanism for it to work i.e. Natural Selection. The Theory (since proved) is Natural Selection. Evolution is a fact and always was. This is the rebuttal to intelligent designers who go Oh but Evolution is only a Theory

There were 2 clues that I thought could be better though. Ashoka expanded the Mauryan Empire by conquering Kalinga, but I feel like the work he did to expand Buddhism is both more well known and more important and thus should be highlighted in the clue.

I also feel that the Pasteur clue is somehow too vague--the way it's phrased, I somehow thought it was a doctor or epidemiologist. It might be a good idea to highlight his work in microbiology and popularizing the germ theory of disease.

Most famous Marconi's invention was stolen from Tesla (which is proved), so it's nonsense to put him in this list instead of Tesla.

Edison was surely material for this list, but not more important than Tesla. Because Edison is realy high on the list, my opinion is that, you should have put Tesla on the list also.

Mightn't greater specificity help? e.g. "Renaissance physicist and astronomer from Pisa" for Galileo, "19th century British novelist and social critic" for Dickens, "20th century Brazilian footballer" for Pele?

Mahavira was an early Jain (6,000,000 followers, mainly in India)

Just saying…

Of all the mathematicians and scientists you added, you left out Gauss!?!?

You clearly forgot artists so you just decided to put them at the end.

If you are looking for an influential sports figure, it would have to be either Ali or Jordan over Pele.

So many things I disagree with that I have to call this bad...just bad

Stalin was in power for longer, killed more people, made USSR into a global power that lasted for 60 years, decided the modern borders of half of Eurasia, resettled millions of people, forever changing the demographics of many regions, set up the Cold War and Iron Curtain etc. Basically defined the world's geopolitics for 50 years to come.

Most of Hitler's deeds, although very significant and horrible, seem to have smaller reach in terms of time scale, number of people and amount of area affected, unless you decide that starting WWII makes him automatically more influencial than Stalin, which if you do, I would like to hear some arguments for, not necessarily that I want to challenge you on this but because I would like to know your line of reasoning.

I could've done with some more time, but I was taking it pretty slow.

This is quite ambiguous, as China had fractured and united over and over through millennia. we can say that every emperor who united China is a correct answer.