Sudden changes in history

[Jumpingmedic]

Constantine I who was the first Christian Emperor of Rome and proclaimed religious tolerence for everyone. Don't know much about him myself but that might be a useful one.

 

[998cc]

First thing to come to mind was the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.

Hoooly crap is that the time gotta go work 10 min ago bye.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

Henry VIII's split from the Catholic Church and proclaiming himself head of the Church of England.

All this just to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn.

 

[101predator]

Amenhotep IV (1300BC) changing the religious system in Egypt to a monotheism system

 

[KNiVES]

Nazis. Turned Germany from a shattered country post WW1 into a vastly intricate elaborate country and then it all fell to ruins as suddenly as it had rose. Such a pity they had violent tendencies.

 

[craptakular]

George W. Bush

 

[rypt]

George W. Bush

Senior or Junior?

I assume junior, and he simply carried on where senior left it

 

[KNiVES]

Senior or Junior?

I assume junior, and he simply carried on where senior left it

Senior should have pulled out earlier

 

[neil3k]

Is this your homework?

 

[Arterion]

Sort of, I'm looking for comparasions to my actual topic, just reading around out of interest really.

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

Mussolini , founder of fascism could be one?

 

[strudey]

Nazis. Turned Germany from a shattered country post WW1 into a vastly intricate elaborate country and then it all fell to ruins as suddenly as it had rose. Such a pity they had violent tendencies.

What? Violence and social Darwinism is inherent to fascism.

 

[Sankari]

Mussolini , founder of fascism could be one?

You can also add the Greek Civil War of the 1940s, and the rise of the Karamanlis government following the demise of the Papadopoulos dictatorship.

 

[Cogwork]

Amenhotep IV (1300BC) changing the religious system in Egypt to a monotheism system

Didn't last long though. Once he was dead (and his son Tutankamun) they went back to old pantheistic/triad systems pretty quickly.

 

[Cogwork]

What about the Meiji restoration (more a group rather than one single person, although most came from the Satsuma clan).
It catapulted Japan from an isolationist and technologically limited society to 50 years later being an industrial and military powerhouse capable of defeating Russia and shaping world politics.

 

[tuffty747]

I rekon Nazism is the one that first jumps to mind. Like someone mentioned earlier, it is a great shame about some of their ideologies, as they certainly turned Germany around, however it is debatable about a LOT of the things they did, and if the people really wanted it, or they had just been brainwashed by Goebells, the Propaganda genius. Howveer my 6th form History teacher did point out today that even if Nazism had survived the second world war, it still wouldn't have lasted as it was just so chaotic, it would have imploded.

Oliver Cromwell and the abolishment of Monachy in the UK for 13 or however many years is another one that jumps to mind.

 

[Cogwork]

Ohh just though of one. Genghis Khan.
Given that he was singly-handely responsable for united the Mongol tribes and subsequent Mongol conquering of everyone from China to India to middle east (they would have taken Europe as well had internal politics not brough them all back home).
Most of the Indian and middle-east empires were the progeny of the Mongol empire after it faded.
So one man set a chain of events leading to millions of deaths, collapse of entire civilisations, birth of new ones, and huge upheavals in European politics.

 

[Anewbe4u]

Saloth Sar (Pol Pot)

His plans didn't exactly work out.

Edit - A very interesting Wiki lead.

 

[Beren]

Mary I of England? The instant switch from protestantism to catholiscism...