10 HUMAN GROUPS THAT INFLUENCED THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD - HISTORY - 2025

Among the human groups that influenced the history of the world, the Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Spanish and Jewish peoples stand out, among many others. It is about those groups that left deep traces in the evolutionary process of man.

They were peoples whose cultures still resonate in the ideas of contemporary man's thought and serve as a basis to explain especially aspects of human conduct and behaviors of societies.

The Greek civilization has been one of the most influential throughout time. Source: pixabay.com

Throughout time, humanity has faced the same existential doubts, and even today it continues to ask the same questions: who are we? How did we get here? Where did we come from? Why do we exist? where are we going?

Humanity continues to insist on knowing how the world works, and in its constant search for answers it has found different solutions to its unknowns through different ways and methods.

At the dawn of their history, many peoples had already left traces and evidences of their beliefs, battles and warrior leaders, as well as of their activities as a result of the settlements that they structured over time. These are extraordinary civilizations whose thought and culture still amaze the world.

The 10 most relevant influential human groups in the history of the world

The new European empires

In the fourth century, the western empire collapsed and barbarians from Asia occupied Europe, beginning the Middle Ages.

Two hundred years later the Mohammedans formed a new empire that ran from Spain to Persia. During this time, significant advances were made in philosophy, mathematics, and science in general.

The Arabs translated classical texts into their language and, through Spain, at the time of the Crusades, they filtered a large part of their knowledge to Europe, leading to the creation of universities.

Already in the fifteenth century, Europe prospered economically to such an extent that the environment was conducive to the intellectual development of the Renaissance.

All of this came together in the so-called scientific revolution of the 16th century, laying the foundations for one of the most emblematic intellectual and cultural movements in history: the Enlightenment, whose precepts held that knowledge of man would defeat ignorance, tyranny and false beliefs. in the quest to build a better world.

The story continued and drastic and significant changes were generated in all its fields (political, philosophical, spiritual, scientific, social, cultural, economic and of human science), changes that shocked the world and made clear the evolutionary nature of the human being, as well as the indelible mark of the civilizations that changed their course.

Neolithic groups

After the last ice age determined by climate warming, man learned to cultivate plants and domesticate some animals.

This caused them to stop being wandering groups and to settle in the regions permanently, giving rise to the sedentary lifestyle of the communities, the control of food production and the increase in population.

Livestock and agriculture were discovered in the Middle East, and then these activities developed and spread throughout Europe and the world. Species such as cereals (corn, wheat and rice in America, the Middle East and Asia, respectively) were cultivated and the dog, horse, goat, sheep and ox were initially domesticated.

The cultural development of these civilizations was noted in the improvement of stone utensil manufacturing techniques, which were polished and refined, resulting in better quality objects.

Similarly, weaving and ceramic techniques highlighted these peoples. This aspect, together with the division of labor, transhumance and religious animism, passed to the following civilizations.

The egyptian people

Egypt was one of the ancient peoples that gave the most contributions to the world. Writing and hieroglyphics served to record their history.

The social organization and its administration were also important contributions of its culture; the first labor movement arose from the first labor protest in its history.

Agriculture - which was the basis of their economy - drove them to advance in technology and they created the hoe and plow. Likewise, they built the shaduf, which was a water transport system that went from the Nile to the irrigation canals.

They applied their knowledge of mathematics and geometry to their constructions. They also knew geography and in the area of ​​science they were the creators of the solar calendar that governs today.

Their techniques of mummification and creation of painkillers with plants also distinguished them as an advanced civilization.

The Phoenician people

This people imitated, fused and spread much of the artistic productions of other peoples of the ancient world, creating an important link between the civilizations of the Mediterranean. This somewhat blurred the fact that he did not consider himself the owner of a culture of his own.

It was a hard-working and enterprising civilization, and excelled in shipbuilding, navigation, and commerce.

Among his most significant contributions is the alphabet, which gave rise to the one currently used in the West. They also created the company figure, established commercial activity and invented the bill of exchange. The territory where this human group was found is currently the Republic of Libya.

The greek people

This civilization is the cornerstone of Western culture, since in all the aspects that define and describe it - such as politics, the educational system, philosophical thought, language, art and science - it exerted particular influence, to the point to originate currents such as the Renaissance (in Western Europe) and the neoclassical movements in America and Europe.

They are also creators of democracy as a system of state and government, through which theories and types of socio-political order were implemented that gave shape to an organized society.

The fine arts, sports and Olympic games, medicine, architecture, philosophy and all their theories about man and his behavior were contributions that have not lost their validity in the world.

The roman people

This civilization constituted the republic as a model of government and had as reference institutions made up of senators: an assembly made up of 300 members from families of patrician blood, which were the elite of society.

Rome contributed Latin, the root of all Romance languages; the political idea, which even from its failures, was a source of knowledge for contemporary nations; and Roman law, whose original court rulings, imperial rights, and laws served as the basis for Napoleon's code.

The Mayan and Aztec peoples

These civilizations represent the Mesoamerican peoples, and are made up of the indigenous ethnic groups of central and southern Mexico and Central America.

Among his multiple legacies, the most emblematic are his notion of the creation of the world, a worldview based on the cycles and laws of nature and the Universe.

The heritage that accompanies the American continent is based on the calendar and writing, the colossal constructions, food, agricultural techniques and irrigation systems, the arts and the use of medicinal plants.

All this survived despite the colonization that these peoples suffered; It can be said that in particular the spirit of struggle and preservation of their beliefs and culture was preserved.

The British people

The superiority of the British people from an international perspective has positioned it as one of the most powerful empires in the world, first through war and later on a cultural level. This is evidenced by the fact that English was imposed as the official language for international relations.

The Anglo-Saxon influence covers extensive territories around the world (America, Asia, the Caribbean, Oceania and Africa).

The Commonwealth (common wealth) is an emblematic organization of the British community, whose fundamental feature corresponds to the links that it has historically maintained with its 52 member countries in the course of its colonization, through its independence, to its reconformation in the social ambit.

The spanish town

This people had a definitive influence on the American continent, especially in the Mesoamerican region.

The conquest of Mesoamerica gave a momentous turn to these colonies, which were transcultured and evangelized by the Spanish in order to gain new territories that were awarded to those who could not access land in Spain and, incidentally, expand the Empire.

The arrival of the Spaniards in America produced one of the bloodiest episodes in history and a change in the socio-political and economic spheres, which resulted in the miscegenation between the races that converged in that part of the world and the emergence of a new identity. cultural.

The jewish people

After a history of segregation and struggles to maintain their place in the world, Jews have had a determining influence on human history.

The forcefulness and conviction of their religious and philosophical beliefs gave rise to Christianity, which spread throughout the world and is the religion with the most followers today in the Western world.

Other ideas they brought to the world were the following:

- The right to schooling in the figure of the public school.

- The proposal that, instead of paying the insults with life, they be paid with money.

- The right of animals to be treated with kindness.

- Crop rotation.

- The establishment of the first judicial system.

- The idea of ​​asylum.

- Equality before the law.

- The census.

- Monotheism.

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