18 Little-Known But Highly Important Historical Events

‘The discovery of beer. It’s believed to have led to agriculture, civilization and writing’
18 Little-Known But Highly Important Historical Events

Look, there’s a lot of history teacher is just going to play the hits.

That doesn’t mean that there aren’t some actually incredibly important history facts that often fall to the wayside. Whether because they’re more complicated to understand, were lesson plan.

Below, Redditors fill in the blanks by sharing history facts that are little-known, but absolutely crucial…

FFALD tony486 2y ago The Battle of Tours. If it didn't go the way it did, Europe would've wound up a lot less Christian and a lot more Muslim than it is, which means all that history of Church power, Anglo-Saxon Christo-dominance in the west wouldn't have happened as it did.
Raakuna 2y ago Edited 2y ago Invention of synthetic fertilizers. Empires have fallen from lack of nutrients in soil and one of the driving force to conquer new lands. Even wars were fought in relatively modern times for aquiring natural nitrogen sources, mainly bird crap filled tiny islands on pacific. Its the reason we can have large yeld of crop to sustain large population and megacities as a species.
Paranormalishh_ 2y ago Armenian genocide. So many ppl my age don't even know what Armenia is
Economy_Candidate299 2y ago Edited 2y ago In the 1960s, the CIA recruited local ethnic groups and peoples in Laos to help fight against the Communists along the Но Chi Minh Trail, and to help rescue American pilots shot down over Laos, in what then became known as the Secret War. It continued until the American withdrawal in 1973. It's one of the reasons why the Hmong people came to the United States. And the Hmong and Lao Veterans Memorial, dedicated in May 1997, can be found today at Arlington National Cemetery.
dscottj . 2y ago From an American perspective, the 1870 siege of Paris. NOBODY with a general education in the US knows about this. We were too busy with reconstruction. It simply isn't taught. | only learned about it because I was trying to get my head around the origins of WWI.
niceguy-365 . 2y ago Most people don't know of the Tunguska event. If that meteor were to hit a moderately populated are today it would be devastation on a scale we haven't scene before.
Vealophile . 2y ago If the tribal leader that King Amon was based on hadn't been assassinated, early Judaism would have collapsed and by extension the Abrahamic religions would have never been founded
NoStress . 2y ago The invention of double-entry ing in the 1400s. Pretty much the foundation of many financial practices today.
Enough-Motor1038 2y ago The Punic Wars - the world could have ended up very differently if Carthage had won (which they nearly did)
UnconstrictedEmu . 2y ago The discovery of beer. It's believed to have lead to agriculture, civilization, and writing.
djkhan23 2y ago Genghis Khan's son died while he was in the process of conquering Europe. If he lived ten more years, Mongols might have riden into .
foodfighter 2y ago Many folks don't know that in 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer refused to retaliate against what was initially thought to be a nuclear attack by the United States against the Soviet Union, but which instead turned out to be a technical malfunction. Basically prevented WW3 (or at least delayed it for 40 years, depending on the outcome of the present special military operation)
AverageJoeDynamo . 2y ago Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution saved the world from starvation.
aingeavelua 2y ago When US education talks about Richard Nixon, it tends to kind of leave out Cambodia and focus more on Watergate. Nixon's invasion of Cambodia almost directly led to the Cambodian Civil War, which led to the political instability that allowed Pol Pot to rise to power, after which he subsequently murdered a quarter of Cambodia's population and stacked their skulls like trophies. But nah, Nixon's a bad guy because of Watergate.
GenesisWorlds 2y ago It is important to that the fax machine was invented in 1843, which was 33 years before the telephone was invented, however, Alexander Graham Bell was only 29 when he invented the telephone. This means the fax machine was invented 4 years before the inventor of the telephone was even born, as Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847. The first fax machines ran through telegraph lines, and later, telephone lines, but the first commercial fax was sent in 1865, which was still 11 years before the invention of the telephone.
For_The_Kaiser . 2y ago The Second Great Awakening led to modern American Protestant Christianity as we know it today, and heavily influenced the abolitionist and feminist movements of the time.
2y ago The Wilmington Coup in North Carolina, was the only successful coup in the US. The integrated government of Wilmington, NC was overthrown by white supremacist red shirts in 1898. Blacks were thrown out of the government and the town started instituting segregation practices, that would spread across the US.
Tom_Bombadil_1 2y ago Julius Caesar was assassinated shortly before beginning another major war of conquest to the east. Given how much the legacy of Rome still shapes the language, culture, laws etc of the whole world, a major eastern expansion that 'stuck' like Gaul did would have major consequences.

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