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Big one will be technology. Americans invented electricity, computers, human flight, etc etc. As advanced as Ancient Egypt was they never invented the wheel. China, Greece, Rome, etc didn't even invent the bicycle. Think about how much of the world's music is based on rock, jazz, rap, and country music that originated in the USA. It's possible in 1000 years American based music could still be dominant.
Americans did NOT invent electricity or computers! Are you trolling by any chance?
Theoretically, you can say that Rome/Italy as a country has been around that long... but it wouldn't be any more accurate than the other ones that you mentioned.
Portugal certainly has been a singular entity, as is San Mariano, as is Egypt. As is Iran. Their governments have changed, but the countries existed then and exist now in predominantly in the same borders.
Certainly, what America should be remembered for more than anything else is the overthrow of the idea of nobility and the implementation of a republican form of government. Such governments are the norm now, so it's hard to realize just how revolutionary a development this was. Especially, this was true following the election of 1800. This was probably the first time in the history of the world where political power was transferred from one group of people to another with completely different political values and that transfer occurred peacefully. Outside of the Western world, even today, such transfers are by no means the norm. If you want a single legacy of America, that would be it.
Remember, the "winners" always re-write their own history and that of the losers. In 1,000 years who knows what form of government we will have in the US; or how many times during that future period there will be a radical changes in the form of government.
Remember, the "winners" always re-write their own history and that of the losers. In 1,000 years who knows what form of government we will have in the US; or how many times during that future period there will be a radical changes in the form of government.
Let me present a likely scenario.
First of all the current area called the USA will have a population that will look substantially different, as will most of the world. There will be little difference in the coloration of the skin, as intermarriage between black, white, yellow, brown and other ethnicities will have occurred so many centuries before, that we all will have a darker complexion, one that may best be demonstrated by current South Pacific Islanders.
Secondly, religion will be relegated to other mythologies of the past. Christianity will have disappeared, and the increase in the Muslim population will have dissipated, as that population has its own renaissance, one that came quickly, and quickly resulted in that population embracing a secular humanism, as the Christians did before them. The history of religion will be looked upon not much different than we currently look at the Greek god mythologies.
Thirdly, very few people will live in rural areas, and those areas will revert to a natural setting. Food production will be more and more urban, in factory 'farms', with an emphasis on nutrition and lack of use of chemicals, mostly raised inside. Essential meat protein will come from extracting the elements needed and used as supplements.
People will replace the mythologies of religion with a spirituality rooted in reverence for nature, and retreats to that nature will be a regular practice.
Politically, the USA will no longer exist, as large regional governments arise. Canada, USA and Central America will likely be one of those entities, however, the interaction with other large regional entities will be based on cooperation, not domination.
Remember, the "winners" always re-write their own history and that of the losers. In 1,000 years who knows what form of government we will have in the US; or how many times during that future period there will be a radical changes in the form of government.
Sure, but America in the guise of our current Constitution was still the first nation on earth to truly experience one group of people voluntarily give up power to another group with opposing political viewpoints. Previously, peaceful transfers of power occurred only without any real change in the political values of the rulers (and usually were the result of the death of a monarch and the ascension of his/her heir). In order to effect real political change, violence invariably was necessary. Even should America's government change fundamentally, the 1800 election was the first time in history where a voluntary, peaceful, real change in political power occurred. That, plus the related elimination of the idea that people should gain power by right of birth are America's true legacy. It's easy to forget just how radical this idea was in the late 18th to early 19th century.
Really? That claim would surprise many in Europe and Canada.'Murica, exceptionalism on display.
Britain and the Netherlands got off to a head start but, by 1910, the U.S. was way ahead. Canada's development patterns are much like those of the U.S., on a much smaller scale.
Not to be cynical, but I don't think any of us will still be around in 10 centuries. This little planet only had a certain shelf life anyway, but we are accelerating it's demise rapidly by our selfish, arrogant behavior.
Take plastic for example. Micro plastics are showing up in the fish we eat and the water we drink, and it is causing us progressively worse health issues. Then, there is our penchant for wanting to blow up every other human we disagree with, so we are Hellbent on wiping out the human race.
There used to be a series on one of the TV channels entitled "Life after Humans", and it was so prophetic about how nature will reclaim this planet once we are no longer here.
I don't see extinction as a possibility. Humans are too good at exploiting small ecological niches. I do think a massive population collapse that will kill off 80% to 90% of the human population as possible, and perhaps even likely. Climate change has the potential to kill as many people as an unlimited nuclear war, and a nuclear war on top of that would make a big mess of humanity. Some fragments of civilization may survive, but not much. People may have never heard of history 1000 years from now.
Tim thought he saw a way to solve this problem – one that he could see could also have much broader applications. Already, millions of computers were being connected together through the fast-developing internet and Berners-Lee realised they could share information by exploiting an emerging technology called hypertext.
Improving and enhancing something which already exists is not inventing.
The net is really the product of a gang bang, from the NASA scientists who developed the miniaturization processes which made it all possible, through the early home computer pioneers and on to notion of connecting it all together, there is no single individual who deserves the title of internet inventor.
I’ll admit I don’t know any of those people in your first list besides Jim Thorpe. I’m a huge sports fan though, and you would never see a greatest athlete list from experts without him near the top. He also has important awards named in his honor. I of course know Jesse James and John Wayne.
As I said in my post above this one though, I think the concept of hollywood will be remembered more than individual people. For example, not many people today could name a gladiator but I’m sure they were known in Roman times.
As I said, I think Walt Disney has the best chance of achieving “immortality”.
The most famous and most played classical music composer is John Philip Sousa.
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