what is it like 1 in 7 people can trace their ancestry back to him
Charles C Mann (au. 1492) has a great metaphor for columbus's impact on the america's. THe disease that wiped out the native populations would be the equivalent of NYC's total population being reduced to the capacity of yankee stadium in less than a decade.
Father of stoicism. Has any philosophy been studied longer? This also removes seneca, marcus aureileis and all those guys from my list.
Weird one cause most of his inventions got surpressed and not commercialized so his impact shouldve been even greater. Fascinating what he invented that we still havent beat that just never got used because free energy couldn't be commercialized (it was thought).
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