Michael H. Hart, “The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History”, 1978 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Michael H. Hart, “The One Hundred: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History”, 1978, PART TWO (II).
COMMENTS.
This list of most influential persons in history must include the origins of writing. Without writing one has only “Oral History” of the Prehistory’s of early civilizations.
This causes me to start at a zero (#0) position, that has no ranking on list of Michael H. Hart shown BELOW.
RANKING POSITIONS.
#0. Enmerkar 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸 (3,500 BC) king of Uruk, MESOPOTAMIA’ invented the first logogram writing.
#1. Muhammad
#2. Isaac Newton
#3. Jesus Christ
#4. Buddha’
#5. Confucius
#6. Apostle Paul
#7. T’sai Lun (蔡伦) Cai Lun.
#8. Johann Gutenberg
#9. Christopher Columbus
#10. Albert Einstein
#11. Louis Pasteur
#12. Galileo Galilei
#13. Aristotle
#14. Euclid
#15. Moses
#16. Charles Darwin
#17. Yellow Emperor 2,698–2,598 BC (Huang Di) 黃帝. The Yellow Emperor invented the second logogram writing in China.
#18. Augustus Caesar
#19. Nicolaus Copernicus
#20. Antoine Lavoisier
Here I presented: Michael H. Hart, “The One Hundred: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History”, 1978, PART TWO (II).
History required writing to begin; and Prehistory to stop.
COMMENTS.
Irving Finkel and Jonathan Taylor, Cuneiform’, 2015 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
I quote from this book on cuneiform writing BELOW.
Page 7. “Cuneiform traces its roots back to a momentous episode for the world around 3,500 BC when, for the first time ever, someone came up with the idea of writing. Prehistory stopped; history began.”
Page 10. “A story from about 1,800 BC told how long ago Enmerkar 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸, king of the ancient city of Uruk, MESOPOTAMIA’ was locked in a battle of wits with a rival king who lived across the mountains. Enmerkar 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸 invented cuneiform writing logograms specifically to help his messenger remember ever more complicated messages.”
History required writing; and Enmerkar 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸 with Huang Di 黃帝 were the inventors of written history. The list of Michael H. Hart is BELOW. 
