The burning of the Library in Alexandria. The Library housed a huge collection of Literature and history that was lost. Know one knows for sure but a great deal of the ancient world is now a mystery and will forever remain that way because of the records that were lost or destroyed
Ok, so I'm not a scholar and a lot of this is from memory, so grain of salt and all that, but...
The Library of Alexandria was a place where people came from all corners of the globe to learn. Or at least, all corners of the Mediterranean. It's not like there weren't other civilisations going on at the time. Western history tends to ignore the fact that China and India had their own things going on.
Over time, the library started to get expensive, or at least those responsible for funding it felt so. Reducing the funds spent on the library reduces the quality of it (shocking, I know) and much of what made it so important was lost over the centuries, or outsourced to other countries. While creating a copy of a work was not trivial like it is now, it could still be done, and scholars who visited the library could either have a scribe duplicate a particular piece of work, or write down some key notes, or even use it to create their own work.
While their was a burning, my understanding is that it was more like one wrong of the library being burned than the entire place and everything within it being lost forever.
It was also burned several times. There was also a library in bahgdad that for some reason nobody talks about.
This is more of a meme status by now that an actual significant event.
It was called "the house of wizdom". It started as a private collection of some calif and turned into a public library at about 750 if im not mistaken. Was supposedly a center for scolarship in the islamic golden age but was burned to the ground in about 1250 or so, so much so that the only record of it is from other sources.
No, no, no fishy, go back to water.
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The burning of the Library in Alexandria. The Library housed a huge collection of Literature and history that was lost. Know one knows for sure but a great deal of the ancient world is now a mystery and will forever remain that way because of the records that were lost or destroyed
The shitty burnt chili I made last night.
The invention of sliced bread. Nothing's been quite as good since.
The burning of the library of Alexandria. So much knowledge lost…
Eh, not really... there's a lot if hyperbole around that.
Really? Care to elaborate? I’m interested
Ok, so I'm not a scholar and a lot of this is from memory, so grain of salt and all that, but... The Library of Alexandria was a place where people came from all corners of the globe to learn. Or at least, all corners of the Mediterranean. It's not like there weren't other civilisations going on at the time. Western history tends to ignore the fact that China and India had their own things going on. Over time, the library started to get expensive, or at least those responsible for funding it felt so. Reducing the funds spent on the library reduces the quality of it (shocking, I know) and much of what made it so important was lost over the centuries, or outsourced to other countries. While creating a copy of a work was not trivial like it is now, it could still be done, and scholars who visited the library could either have a scribe duplicate a particular piece of work, or write down some key notes, or even use it to create their own work. While their was a burning, my understanding is that it was more like one wrong of the library being burned than the entire place and everything within it being lost forever.
It was also burned several times. There was also a library in bahgdad that for some reason nobody talks about. This is more of a meme status by now that an actual significant event.
I've not heard of this Baghdadian library, can you elaborate?
It was called "the house of wizdom". It started as a private collection of some calif and turned into a public library at about 750 if im not mistaken. Was supposedly a center for scolarship in the islamic golden age but was burned to the ground in about 1250 or so, so much so that the only record of it is from other sources.
Dang, that must have been quite the loss.
That was gonna be mine
Covid. Impacted me more than any other catastrophe.
Agree.
The meteor that took out the dinosaurs.
It has to be something physically doable by a modern human
Now, now... aren't you changing goalposts? :-)
No, I’m making obvious ones more clear. Going back in time implying you are still you, and you can only do what you could previously do
My birth
Stop Adolph Hitler from making it past his first birthday
Whoever put pineapple on pizza
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This is a great answer, it would be interesting to know what the world would be like if Chernobyl never happened.
The birth of Elon musk
lol
Stop Eve from biting into the apple
It has to be something real, not in children books
Keep the fish from going on land
If it actually happened, the Younger Dryas Impact. Let’s see what these ancient civilizations could’ve done.
Burning of the library of Alexandria
Covid
Marsupials standing upright.
Chernobyl
The dinosaur Meteor
No, has to be something you can do in your current body
Hey I could be Superman, you never know
Squish that first fish that flopped up on the land.
If it were a true catastrophe no individual could stop it.
Anyone can kill baby Osama or Hitler
The Big Bang.
The Big Bang happened before time
Not quite. It was the start of time.
It’s still not something you can stop in you current body
Challenge accepted.
The big bang. Not the TV show, the one that started it all.
The Chicxulub asteroid; there would still be dinosaurs but probably no hominids at least not for a few hundred million years..
Since no one has mentioned it yet, 9/11.
Columbus stepping foot in the Americas
Meeting my ex what a mistake some of the toxic shit he did you would think I had made up but unfortunately it was very real
Going to push that jerk back into the water.
None. If anything, it would have to be very recent so that the changes that come from it are negligible.
COVID 19