> Most of the world has millennia of history. And I also feel that it's myopic to think that a historical event is less significant because it happened longer

> Most of the world has millennia of history. And I also feel that it's myopic to think that a historical event is less significant because it happened longer ago and its effects are more diluted. But there are plenty of turning points in history that explain why today's world looks the way it does, the American (or French) revolutions are but some of them.