Which person had the most influence over the way the world is today?

Mitochondrial Eve.

Y'e-liu Ch'u-tsai

(Gengis Khan's Uighur administrator, who kept open trade and cultural routes between Orient and Occident in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.)

João da Silva :joke: I was hoping for a fellow country man

It has to be Lenin, he single handedly changed the course of the 20th century. And therefore of history, he made a mess out of the last centuyr

Although not the most, Winston Churchill had a huge impact on the world, if it wasnt for him the world would be german and japaense.

Pausanias for winning the battle of Plataea along with Themistokles for winning the battle of Salamis. Without their genius, Greece would have been conquered and its culture destroyed.

Since i already nominated more than one person, i might as well add Homer and whoever wrote the Gilgamesh Epic for their outstanding contributions to literature.

Edit: Rephrased it a bit.

The guy that started writing history down. Since then there has been to many to count and all have affected history in some way, even you and me. However the guy that thought and said 'We should writie things that happened down so we dont foreget them', he was the smartest of them all

One person who had alot of influence was the Rev. Jim Jones, who got his flock to move to South America and commit suicide.

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