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“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it� – Oscar Wilde Over the past 300 years, humans have taken major technological steps, advancing us to the high-tech community seen today. Simple mechanizations such as seed drills during the Agricultural Revolution paved the way for the machine guns used in World War I that killed thousands upon thousands of soldiers who were only pawns in an intergovernmental struggle. Warfare soon became a major part of economy because of the supplies needed to support a military in battle. War would be nothing it is today without the scientific discoveries of the past 300 years. Economic and technological advances paved the way for nuclear war. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, agricultural methods were becoming more and more efficient. The Enclosure Movement allowed smaller landholdings to be made into more efficient holdings. New technology was being used for agriculture, such as crop rotation, Jethro......

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