Having read your list and the comments, I would roll antibiotics and pasteurization together into - discovery of germ theory And add your entry - Constantinople & spread of modern Christianity as my new 10th, although it's a very close race with irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates valley. If we're disallowing mastery of fire as too non-specific, then I'm adding irrigation.
Book recommendation: Consider the Fork. It was not until we could boil food (in ceramic pots) that people routinely survived past losing all of their teeth.
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Date: 2023-10-24 05:49 am (UTC)- discovery of germ theory
And add your entry
- Constantinople & spread of modern Christianity as my new 10th, although it's a very close race with irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates valley. If we're disallowing mastery of fire as too non-specific, then I'm adding irrigation.
Book recommendation: Consider the Fork. It was not until we could boil food (in ceramic pots) that people routinely survived past losing all of their teeth.