Be even more suttle with this POD and have the person who inspired B-P Frederick Russell Burnham (wiki link)
Was reading about another subject and his name was mentioned I then Googled it and found his conection with B-P. The POD could be the Pleasant Valley War.I like it!
Was reading about another subject and his name was mentioned I then Googled it and found his conection with B-P. The POD could be the Pleasant Valley War.
Or (which is closer to the "remove from history" in the OP) during the Dakota War (perhaps I'm relying too much on Wikipedia here).
The Pleasant Valley War was real.
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Wiki it.
I don't know about removing, but I wouldn't mind going back three million years, find Lucy, slap her, and tell her to 'get back up in that tree'.
I think a good one is the person who invented writing. Now we are stuck in prehistory.
Mistake in here: the reason why Columbus was derided for his plan to reach India going towards the west wasn't because people believe Earth was flat, but because Columbus' measurement of the distance between Europe and Asia going that way was way smaller than the real deal, and the scientists knew that (hey, the Greeks already knew that the Earth was round!). If anything, Columbus was quite lucky that America was in the middle (and nearly at a same distance at what he said Asia was), otherwise the sailors that had travelled with him would have died for sure.Christopher Columbus
I think it would have taken at least another hundred years before some other crazy guy tried sailing for India with the risk of falling off the end of the Earth. even if it was like 20 years, Spain would not always get to the New World first. What if the English found Mexico city first? It would be named like Mays City after a while, if even taken by anybody.
Then remove who ever came up with the idea of paper!Grandfather paradox, much?
Not to be an spoilsport, but writing wasn't invented by 1 person, but it was created by several hundreds (even thousands) of people, working for hundred of years, in several different countries, and also to manage to get people to realise that each symbol used in writing has an abstract meaning.
Mistake in here: the reason why Columbus was derided for his plan to reach India going towards the west wasn't because people believe Earth was flat, but because Columbus' measurement of the distance between Europe and Asia going that way was way smaller than the real deal, and the scientists knew that (hey, the Greeks already knew that the Earth was round!). If anything, Columbus was quite lucky that America was in the middle (and nearly at a same distance at what he said Asia was), otherwise the sailors that had travelled with him would have died for sure.
As for my opinions:
Asia: Genghis Khan (without him, the chances of Chinese inventions reaching Europe, such as gunpowder or paper, would have been quite slim; and it was under the mongols that the Silk Route was made secure), Qin Shi Huangdi (or however the first Chinese Emperor was called),
Europe: Augustus (no Roman Empire, thus a huge change in the future of the world), Hitler (was born before 1900, his decisions started a war that killed more than 50 million people), Napoleon (the Napoleonic Wars shaped the whole continent, one way or other, and the invasion of Spain sparked the end of the Spanish Empire), Ángel Castro y Argiz (no Ángel, no Castro brothers and probably no successful Cuban revolution).
America: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson
1) Og, greatest human inventor of all time, inventor of the wheel.
What person in history (pre-1900) if removed would most likely
alter the look of our world today.