It’s hard to say who is the greatest, as they are different in different aspects, but these people are still very good. They can be said to be the top ten great people who have influenced the world!
1. Homer, Homer’s epic poem truly records the Mycenaean civilization, the beginning of Greek civilization more than 3,000 years ago.
Often the greatness of history is not reflected in conquerors, kings or politicians. The greatest owners of history are often unarmed artists! ! ! !
The second to fourth must be the Three Sages of Ancient Greece
Socrates, Plato (student of Su), Aristotle (student of Bo)
From the beginning, ancient Greek civilization has demonstrated the perfection and beauty of ancient human civilization, almost to a level that no other ancient civilization can reach.
Under the Parthenon, the ancient Greek tragedy, Aristotle, and Venus that we are familiar with, plus Olympia in the distance, almost complete the most complete way of human life.
Plato’s Academy taught and classified subjects involving philosophy, politics, law, aesthetics, physics, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, medicine, etc.
At the same time, Laozi, Confucius and others only carried out basic social moral and ethical education, focusing on interpersonal relationships between up, down, left and right.
The gap is obvious.
The fifth choice is the greatest emperor in human history (no one) - Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire
It is not because he founded the world The first super empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa, but because he has a tolerant heart that is bigger and greater than the super territory! ! There are thousands of emperors in human history, but few can be called great emperors, and Cyrus is the greatest among them.
The glory of the ancient Persian Empire for more than a hundred years is related to this name.
Napoleon once said, "Famous is nothing more than a grand noise. The greater the noise, the farther it spreads, everything will disappear, only the noise continues to exist and is spread among future generations." In fact, he The hustle and bustle is the hustle and bustle of iron and blood, the sadness of my wife, the tears of my parents, and the turmoil of human civilization.
Cyrus the Great did not make such noise, and his reputation came from his tolerance.
He defeated his grandfather who tried to kill him, but allowed him to live with him and take care of himself.
He defeated the Mede Empire, which had a feud with Persia, but still treated the Mede king as an emperor and obeyed the king's advice.
He conquered Babylon, where his tolerance reached the pinnacle of the ancient world. He strictly ordered the army not to disturb the people and respect local customs and religious beliefs.
What is even more commendable is that he also released the people of various ethnic groups whom the Babylonian kings had captured as slaves, sent troops to escort them back to their hometowns, and supported them with manpower and material resources to rebuild their hometowns and civilization.
Among them are the Israelite ancestors who were once called prisoners of Babylon. It was Cyrus the Great who brought them back to the "treasure land flowing with milk and honey - Canaan" , it was Cyrus the Great who helped them rebuild the Temple of Jehovah and reestablish Judaism, and the deeds of Cyrus the Great were recorded in the Bible.
In his time, the conquerors treated the conquered by burning, killing and plundering. "The one who has no money will take his wife, and the one who has no wife will take his head."
Cyrus the Great was a miracle of his time.
Because he is tolerant.
Conquests in history have been accompanied by cries, sobs, and collapses.
Behind the grand bustle of the conquerors is the silence of individual human civilizations.
Cyrus the Great conquered so many countries and so many civilizations, but they did not destroy silence because of this. Instead, they flourished, and those civilizations that had disappeared were reborn because of this. The behavior of Cyrus the Great can no longer be explained by the imperial mentality.
Rather than being a conqueror of civilization, it is better to say that he is an admirer of civilization.
Cyrus the Great did not make any grand noise, but later people remembered him and always said Cyrus the Great when calling him! ! ! ! (Cyrus the great)
No. 6, undoubtedly the greatest military strategist and conqueror in human history - Alexander the Great
He conquered almost all the Western countries at that time. Know the world.
In his short life, through courage, perseverance and outstanding military command, he brought the most highly developed Greek civilization in the world to every corner of the known world at that time. He was unlike any other Greek. Arrogant, he married barbarian women and the princess of the defeated Babylon. He allowed children from other countries in the world to receive advanced Greek-style education and military training.
In short, everything he did had nothing to do with conquest.
His impact on world history was extremely huge.
For example, in terms of sculpture, architecture and painting, the Greek sculptors, architects and painters who followed him to the East taught the Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians and Indians.
So much so that the sculptures, architecture, and paintings in many areas in later generations all have a Greek style.
For example, the Buddha sculptures of Indian Buddhism learned from the advanced sculpture techniques of Greece. Later, Indian Buddhism was introduced to China, so that many Greek sculptures and paintings were found in the Mogao Grottoes, the pinnacle of the history of Chinese sculpture and mural painting. shadow.
No. 7 is the oldest name in this ranking, Hammurabi, who reigned from about 1792 BC to 1750 BC.
The ancient Babylonian Kingdom (1894 BC to 1595 BC) ) the sixth king. He promulgated the first relatively complete written code in human history, the Code of Hammurabi, which had a profound impact on Mesopotamia civilization and later Persian civilization.
Although this code had the purpose of maintaining the rule of slave owners at that time, the fairness and justice it achieved was quite astonishing at the time.
Even if there are some regrets and the cruelty of ancient civilization.
No. 8 Caesar Although he was not an emperor, he was called Caesar the Great. In later generations, some emperors even used his name to replace the title of emperor.
He was the consul of Rome at the end of the Roman Republic, and was honored as the founder of the Roman Empire by later generations. What is even more commendable is that Caesar and his contemporary Cicero were both called Latin literature by later generations. Caesar left a large number of private letters and articles during his lifetime. However, because Augustus (Octavian), the later founding emperor of the Roman Empire, deified Caesar as a divine king, most of his works were destroyed. It has been destroyed; at present, Caesar's main handed down works are his personal war memoirs "Gaul Wars" and "Civil War". They are still used as Latin teaching materials in Western schools because of their high writing level. The unmodified third-person direct narrative method was praised by later generations as the greatest practical military book in the ancient military history of the world.
No. 9. Gautama Buddha Indian civilization is undoubtedly one of the most important ancient civilizations in human history.
However, Indian civilization has become very messy due to the impact of external civilization.
The only thing that continues and has a significant impact on future generations is Buddhism! It is well-deserved that Gautama Buddha ranks 9th on this list
10. Leonardo da Vinci, the top 9 are all great figures from the major ancient Western civilizations before the arrival of the dark feudal Middle Ages, and After the Dark Middle Ages lasted for 1,000 years, the full beginning of the Renaissance marked the rebirth of Western civilization.
Among them, Leonardo da Vinci is the master! ! His achievements involve science, architecture, military, water conservancy, geology, and art.
The most important thing is: In the beginning, when people learned scientific knowledge, they only learned Aristotle’s theory like the Bible, and only believed in written records.
Leonardo da Vinci opposed the scholastic philosophers' use of past teachings and remarks as the basis of knowledge. He encouraged people to learn from nature and seek knowledge and truth in nature.
He believes that knowledge originates from practice and should start from practice and explore the mysteries of science through practice.
He said that "the greatest misfortune is that theory is divorced from practice" and "practice should be based on good theory."
Leonardo da Vinci proposed and mastered this advanced scientific method, used this scientific method to conduct scientific research, and made great contributions to natural science.
The method he proposed was later developed by Galileo and theoretically summarized by the British philosopher Bacon, becoming the most basic method of modern natural science.
Leonardo da Vinci firmly believed in science. He was disgusted with religion and criticized those in power in the Catholic Church as "a peddler of deceit and lies."
He said: "There is only one truth, and it is not in religion, but in science." Leonardo da Vinci's experimental working methods were later used by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, The inventions of Newton, Einstein and others opened up new paths.
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