No, in fact at least a very distant second. #1 is this fucking dumb ass right here. 
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the united states is literally the most environmentally disastrous thing to happen to the earth since the k-pg extinction event (asteroid that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs). so yes, the u.s. is the worst thing to happen in human history. as far as terrestrial history goes it is top 10.
Depends how far you wanna root-cause it.
Agriculture is probably the furthest back you could go. I think the Dutch East India Company inspired a lot of the persistent evils of the modern world, so I’d maybe slice it right there.
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i don't know the order but i'm pretty sure the top 5 are:
crawling out of the sea
climbing down from the trees
the anglo empire
christianity
matter/antimatter asymmetry
if you have to separate the US and UK i'd drop the antimatter one
It depends on whether you count AmeriKKKa as distinct from the British Empire. Otherwise, the Spanish Empire and everything Germany ever did are strong contenders. The USA undoubtedly is the worst entity in the world today tho.
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In terms of a negative snowball effect
- Battle of Tours
- Mongol Conquests
- 1492
- Moroccan Destruction of the Songhai
- 1776
- The Coup of 9 Thermidor
Life forming
My birth
America existing
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Anglo-Saxon first. You don't get America without it. Then you have Spain, France.
Reading a book called Pacific Worlds and I only got to page 54ish before Portuguese and Spain showed up to fuck everything over.
I get what you mean, things are awful and I don’t want to take away from that. You definitely have an argument that we are one of the worst things to happen in modern history, but we are also a relatively young country, and the horrors of history are vast. Just off the top of my head:
- The fall of Rome.
- When Vlad the Impaler impaled.
- The Crusades.
- The Napoleonic Wars.
- The Black Plague.
- WWII (as the deadliest conflict in human history).
- The Taiping Rebellion.
- The Spanish Flu.
- The Second Sino-Japanese War.
- The Congo Genocide.
America stands in a long line of powerful civilizations who have royally fucked things up for everybody.
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