What do you think are the historical events that most affected humanity?

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This is a good question! And I will just make my answer simple.

For me, I would consider the fall of the Roman Empire as the biggest event that happened and affected the whole world and our life today. And because of this unfortunate event for the Romans, it opened a great change and a new generation of communication for all nations, the birth of the English language. Why I say so?

Because during those times that the empire was about to collapse, it could no longer hold its strength on its one of its colonies, the Britain. Britannia at that time was almost inhabited by Anglo-Saxons and has a long conflict against the Vikings that were mostly around Europe. The Vikings, specifically the Normans waged war against the Saxons and successfully defeated the exhausted Britons. Because of these chain of events, the Old English(by the Anglo-Saxons) was eradicated and what we had now is the Modern English.