Re: Worst mistakes in human history?

From           tomr@fred.net ( )
Organization   FredNet - Frederick, Md.
Date           10 Mar 1998 13:52:17 GMT
Newsgroups     soc.history.what-if
Message-ID     <6e3gih$2jb$1@news.fred.net>
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tim martin (tmartin3@ua1vm.ua.edu) wrote:
: My list:
: 1.  Slavery - how many potential Einsteins, Shakespeares, or
: Washingtons died harvesting sugar cane or cotton?
: 2.  Subjugation of women - how many doctors, teachers, scientists,
: engineers, poets, did we lose?
: 3.  Fall of Roman Empire - not that it was flawless, but the several
: centuries that followed of scientific stagnation still haunts us
: today.
: 4.  Subjugation of weaker cultures - Rome of Carthage and the Greek
: city-states, US of Native Americans, Spanish of the Aztecs and Incans
: - how much was lost?
: 5.  Book burning/destuction - whether it was the Maya texts or the
: Library of Alexandria.
: 6.  Lack of environmental self control - slaughter of passenger
: pigeons, dodos, plains bison, moas.
: 7.  Nazism - 6 million Jews, Gypsies, others killled, millions more in
: the war against it.  
: 8.  Racism - similar to slavery, what did we lose?
: 
: Others?
: Thoughts?

9. Keeping Buckner at first at the bottom of the 10th in the 6th Game of
the World Series...

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