10 significent people who changed the World History
As the title says, it is discussing the people who changed the map of the world through their inventions and work. Well, each one of these individuals has had some important contributions and has changed the course of history with their work or struggles, we will find out the top ten people who made tremendous changes to the world history.https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6478296238090566505/2120534020903058414
- Bill Gates
This article that you're reading on your desktop is of this brainchild. If he hadn't invented this, you would not be able to grasp the immense information out there in the world. While still studying at the high school level, Bill Gates developed his first computer program and later on founded Microsoft and by 1993 he was the richest man on this earth in the year 2000. He, along with his wife started the world's largest charity, "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation". This charity works towards eradicating polio and other deadly diseases from three world countries.
2. Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo, born with many talents in 1452 is the smartest man to have ever lived. He gave us art, helped us understand human anatomy and foresaw the age of flight 400 years before it finally happened. His achievements cross so many disciplines from art to science that it is difficult to showcase his talents in just a few sentences.. His paintings and inventions have made him the leading man of the Italian Renaissance period. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and was creating sketches of machines which look like bicycles and helicopters way before way before Wright Brothers. He was man of all times and even the King of France carried him as trophy and held him in his hand when he died. Still, T-shirts bear his famous paintings. People admired his work in all over the world. Writers and historians tribute his work in their writings. Leonardo died in 1519.
We are all aware of the Menace of a party the racial segregation enforced in South Africa by the governing party, the National Party Nelson Mandela fought all adversities to end the discrimination between the black and white. The racist National Party imprisoned this future leader for 26 years. On his release in 1990 , he was elected president of the African National Congress. After three years, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle to end the apartheid.
4. Adolf Hitler
This iconic fascist leader of Germany ruled from 1933 to 1945. His aim was to create a country where only the Aryan blond hair and blue eyed race lived and flourished his hatred towards the Jewish people which led to the Holocaust, a brutal genocide of about six million people who were forced and killed in concentration camps in East Germany. Truly, he had changed the contours of history which gave Jews their Holy Land, Israel near Palestine.
5. Albert Einstein
One of the most genius minds that has ever lived on the planet was Albert Einstein. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work, the general theory of relativity in 1921. Even though he was a firm believer in pacifism, the United States asked him to develop the atomic bomb due to his successful scientific theories. A week before his death, he wrote to a British philosopher and anti-nuclear campaigner Bertrand Russell to put his name on the manifesto, urging all nations to give up the idea of enriching the destructive nuclear power.
Abraham was born in 1890 son of labor but he had thirst of learning and knowledge. He worked hard in his studies and became legal circuit Abe. He started to raise his voice against slavery and delivered many public speeches on it. In 1858, he was nominated as Senate candidate where he opposed extension of slavery. Gradually, he became well known in Republican Party due to his debating skills. After hard campaign of 1860, he became President of America. In 1862, Lincoln issue on freedom of Slaves in Emancipation proclamation proceeded. Through his leadership qualities and patience, he was able to unite all unites of America although America was in continuous civil war. He was assassinated while visiting Ford's Theater.
7. Karl Marx:
Karl Marx, a sociologist who had foreseen the ills of the Americans materialistic society wanted to live in a classless world where everyone was equal. He documented his theories in the communist manifesto with Frederick Engels and Das Kapital. By 1950, his idea was put into practice with Russian Revolution and communism.
8. Charles Darwin:
According to Charles Darwin, we are all descendants of Apes. As he documented in his theory of evolution as an official naturalist, he went on a world voyage on HMS Beagle collecting data on the evolution of Mankind. He spent the rest of his life writing the Origin of Species by means of natural selections in England. When his book was published in 1859, it was highly criticized because Darwin challenged the Bible's account of creation.
9. William Shakespeare:
The most celebrated playwright of the English language, William Shakespeare changed the face of English literature. He began his career as an actor and later on moved to writing plays in his entire lifetime. He wrote about 37 plays including Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth Hamlet, King Lear and many more infamous plays. He is also credited to writing 154 love poems and sonnets. William Shakespeare was not only a poet and playwright but he also introduced about 2,000 words into the English dictionary.
10. Christopher Columbus:
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the blue ocean making himself the number one person who has changed the world. He sailed across the Atlantic four times in search of land of the riches, Asia. He left on a voyage on the Santa Maria across Europe and the Atlantic with hopes to reach Asia instead he accidentally discovered the Americas. When he found the unknown land, it marked the beginning of transatlantic colonization and conquests.
Bill gates, Leonardo da Vinci, Nelson Mandela, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, William Shakespeare or Christopher Columbus.
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