What were the most pivotal and important inventions in history?
What you’re looking for is anything that changed the way we do things, later becoming the everyday way we do things. If an invention is something you can’t imagine living without, or would alter history by its absence, then it’s pivotal and important. Here’s a partial but comprehensive list, in very rough chronological order: Stone Age: knife, spear, bow, weaving, rope, dyes, shield, fire, pottery, law, agriculture, timekeeping, the wheel. Bronze Age: bronze working, metal casting, shovel, axe, woodcutting, hammer, nails, fencing, selective breeding, mining, chains, shipbuilding, alphabetics, sword, medicine, geometry, masonry, cartography, astronomy, architecture, coinage, representative government, formal logic. Iron Age: iron working, cooperage, glass blowing, bureaucracy, military science, cement, plumbing, roads, fortification, paper, gearing, watermills, windmills. Medieval Age: efficient horse harness, iron plow, crop rotation, mail armor, formal schooling, chemistry, guilds, pr
