Here's another candidate.

Karl Marx

-Father of Marxist communism.

-influenced the revolutions of 1917-22, these influences bringing us the ussr, prc, the proxy wars of the cold war, and the rest of the lot.

-Great influence of current European political philosophy and Vladimir Lenin.

-essentially, his ideas are responsible for a century of upheaval. The world's current political state is molded by these ideas.

I'd say Lenin was more influential with regard to Marxism since he transformed Marx's theory into actual practice. It was Lenin's idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat under a vanguard party that's recognized as "communism" today, not Marx's notion of a stateless, classless, and moneyless society that would ultimately result from worker ownership of the means of production.

Maybe Mao was even more influential- he was the first to claim that peasants weren't simply a part of the petit-bourgeoisie but instead at least potential allies of the proletariat (which occurred due to necessity, as the proletariat had been essentially rendered powerless by imperialists and later nationalists before Mao came to power).

Just making a correction.

Hammurabi didn't create the customary system or put his foot down for measurement, that was confusion with King Henry I. However, it's highly likely that Hammurabi's people did use customary measurements!

Is Jesus a part of History? or is he part of the Bible?

Basically all scholars agree that he actually existed. All that's really up for debate is his divine nature as depicted in the bible, but that's really neither here nor there in terms of his influence.

Just replace incas with sumerians/babylonians.

Besides writing, offering religious polytheism, several advanced sciences and numerous other things (including astronomy), yeah. Incans were good warriors with interesting agriculture and architectural feats. Not much else to say. Aztecs and Mayans more notable by a long shot.

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The guy who made printing press possible.

Mr Jesus Christ

Why no holocaust without Jesus?

Adolf Hitler... we as a planet have learned so much from him and his Empire or Reich.. they weren't all good, but ever since him, the world has all unified to take down dictatorships and any threat of a massive empire threatining a certain group of people. the world has learned so much from him and all the things he has done to the world, good and bad..

The guy who made the printing press in Europe was some German.

Really? We take down threats to peace and we take out dictatorships? oh I get it we invaded Iraq after saying "you have WMDs" they said they don't and we invaded anyways. Now when North Korea comes around showing nuclear weapons and saying what cities they'll bomb wheres the invasion of North Korea and us toppling the Kims?

Just a short list of highly influential people:

Jesus
Mohammed
Hammurabi
Moses

In more recent times:
Napoleon
Hitler
King George the III

Johanes Guttemberg was the one who invented the printing press, in 1450 or 1455

Also, the guy who invented the wheel is also important.Without that invention, we still mayebe wallked weeks of years in vacantions or anywhere i this world .

And about fire, i know a phrase about it's invention and after it : ''1 million years ago the man discovered the fire.5 minutes later he discovered grilling :) ''

Abraham. Yes, the biblical Abraham. From him sprouted perhaps the 3 largest religions in human history ( Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and the whole concept of monotheism.

People over calculate religion's importance. Animal Husbandry existed in the fertile crescent 13,000 years ago, predating gobekli tepe and iniating pastoral societies. Just about every important character in religious stories is a Shepard. I'd say it's Score 2 for Mesopotamians on world influence and Score 1 for rest of the world.

Some influential figures :

Charles Darwin
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
Genghis Khan
Victoria
Bismarck
Leonardo Da Vinci
Guy who invented Bessemer process
John Pierpont Morgan

Not charles darwin.

he didnt create evolution- he just popularized it.

and if he hadnt popularized it, someone else wouldve.

also, the guy who invented the bessemer process wasnt that important. 2 people invented the bessemer process seperately around the same time in the same year.

Henry Bessemer's being attibuted to creating is unfair, as he just one a legal battle and got the copyright to it.

Thus, his importance is nullified- if someone went back in time and killed him, there wouldnt be a great ripple effect, as the other guy would have simply gotten the copyright instead- assuming, of course, that henry bessemer's descendants didnt do anything important.

anyway, the most important person of all is the first homo sapien. without him, none of us would be here.

Nope. The first homo sapien was not alone. There were a bunch of homos starting to start their own club, and at some point they collectively crossed the border to sapien. How else would the first of them have been able to reproduce?

I'd say the most influential two people we know of are Adam and Eve. That is, the biological Adam and Eve, the closest common ancestor of all people through the male and female line, respectively. They lived some 150.000 years ago in Africa (though not at the same time), and without either of them, literally none of the people alive today would have existed.

Though I also have to give credit to the first proto-cellular organism that was the first to figure out self-replication.

But in terms of humans we know by name... Columbus may actually be a good candidate. Had he not sucked at maths so hard and underestimated the size of the earth, we would perhaps have remained unaware of the Americas for centuries, until someone would have listened to stories of the Vikings, and discovered the New World in an entirely different way. Perhaps this time the Inca's could have defended themselves, and there would be no Spanish Empire, no USA, and all of the guys they produced, etcetera.

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I must protest. In terms of exploration, Marco Polo is far more astounding.