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Interesting article about often overlooked moments in world history.Among them: - the Seven Year's War as the first world war in History- the Danube script claimed by some archaeologists to be the earliest known form of writing in the world- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) as the real father of scientific method (way before Descartes and Bacon)and more ...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19662059
Very interesting, but for this:
Double-entry book-keeping, which is widely believed to have been introduced to Europe in the early 16th Century by the monk Luca Pacioli, is a financial accounting system. It recognises that all transactions have two aspects, a credit and a debit, and in a properly constituted set of books, the two sets of figures always balance.
I am almost positive that double-entry bookkeeping was invented in Italy by the thirteenth century, as it was used in the Venetian maritime trade in the late Middle Ages. Other milestones that go unnoticed:The invention of the television (Philo Farnsworth)The invention of the automobile
