What is your ethnicity's biggest contribution to the world?

**~~Iloko~~** · 11-16-2016, 04:28 AM

For example:
1) English speaking overseas workers
2) Singers
3) Tourism

List at least the #1 or perhaps the top several biggest contributions your ethnicity/group has bestowed upon this earth since the dawn of Australopithecus lol.

**~~Centrix~~** · 11-16-2016, 04:30 AM

Since my close friend and co-worker is Indian, I will speak for the Indo Aryans.

The decimal number system of place value 10 was invented by Indians.

Indians were the first to use Zero as a numeral.

The present place value system was invented by Indians.

Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry and Calculus originated in India.

The Binary number system which is used in modern computers and digital devices was invented in India.

The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10*53 (i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. During the Vedic period.

The value of “pi” correct to 5 decimal places was manipulated by Aryabhatta and he was the first scientist to declare pi as an irrational number. However the value of “pi” correct to 31 decimals has been encrypted in ancient Indian Vedas long before the invention of Aryabhatta or the Greek.

Budhayana explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem today. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematician, Pythagoras was born.

Newton’s theory of gravity was known to Indians 1200 years before Newton was born.

Astronomy and Cosmology studies originated in India.

Chess was invented in India.

The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called ‘Mokshapat.’ The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. Later through time, the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.

The world’s first university was the Takshila University which existed during 700 BC.

Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The father of medicine,

Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago in India.

Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries. More than 3000 different surgeries were performed and nearly 120 surgical instruments have been used before 2600 years itself.

Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh 6000 over years ago. The very word ‘Navigation’ is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Nou’.

Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was – Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.

Extraction of Zinc from Zinc ore was known to Indians 4000 years before the British invention.

Buddhism and Jainism originated in India.

The ancient Indians had given the world the idea of the smallest and largest measuring units of Time. The smallest is the 34,000th of a second (krati) and the largest is the 4.32 Billion years (mahayuga).

Yoga was invented in India.

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**~~Linebacker~~** · 11-16-2016, 04:54 AM

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**Mortimer** · 11-16-2016, 05:06 AM

The biggest contribution would be music I think.

Romani music plays an important role in Central and Eastern European countries such as Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Hungary, Slovenia and Romania, and the style and performance practices of Romani musicians have influenced European classical composers such as Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms. The lăutari who perform at traditional Romanian weddings are virtually all Romani.

Musicians

▪ Sinan Sakić - Serbian Folk singer of Romani descent.
▪ Django Reinhardt - (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) Belgian-born pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar) that has since become a living musical tradition within French Manouche culture.
▪ Mariska Veres – (1947–2006) Lead singer of the Dutch rock group Shocking Blue. Daughter of Hungarian Romani violinist Lajos Veres and Franco-Russian mother.
▪ Ronnie Wood – (1947–) Guitarist and bassist with Faces, and Rolling Stones. Born to a family of "water gypsies" or barge operators. It is unclear whether this is a slang term for the profession or actually refers to the Roma ethnicity.
▪ Carmen Amaya – (1913–1963) Spanish flamenco dancer
▪ Vicente Escudero – Spanish flamenco singer, dancer and choreographer; occasionally painter, writer and actor.
▪ Pyotr Leshchenko – Russian (born 1858–1903))
▪ Grigoraş Dinicu – Romanian composer and violinst
▪ Anjeza Shahini – Albanian
▪ Pista Dankó – (born 1858–1903) Hungarian-born bandleader and composer
▪ Sandro de América – (1945–2010) Argentinian singer and actor
▪ Adam Ant – (born 1954) British punk/New Wave musician; maternal grandmother is Romanichal.
▪ Elek Bacsik – (1926–1993) Hungarian-born American jazz violinist and guitarist
▪ Robi Botos – Canadian musician and composer from Hungary
▪ Joe Zawinul – Austrian musician. His grandmother was a Hungarian Romani, and his grandfather was from southern Moravia.
▪ Eugene Hütz – Ukrainian singer, guitarist, writer and actor
▪ Saban Bajramovic – (1936–2008) Serbian singer
▪ János Bihari – (1764–1824) Hungarian violinist
▪ Věra Bílá – (born 1954) Czech folk and pop singer
▪ Iva Bittová – (born 1958) Czech singer, violinist and composer
▪ Diego "El Cigala" – (born 1968, Madrid) Spanish flamenco singer
▪ Joaquín Cortés – Spanish flamenco dancer
▪ "Rayito" Antonio Rayo – Spanish Guitarist, singer and composer. Father Gitano (Iberian Kalo) and mother Japanese
▪ Panna Cinka – (1711–1772) Hungarian Violinist, born in Kingdom of Hungary in modern Slovakia
▪ Georges Cziffra – (1921–1994) Hungarian virtuoso pianist
▪ Drafi Deutscher – (1946–2006) German Sinto songwriter, singer and composer
▪ Damian Draghici – Romanian, composer and panflute player
▪ Fanfare Ciocărlia – (formed 1996) Romanian brass band
▪ "Falete" Rafael Ojeda Rojas – Spanish singer
▪ Lolita Flores – (1958) Spanish singer and actress.
▪ Antonio Flores – (1961–1995) was a Spanish singer-songwriter and actor.
▪ Rosario Flores – (born 1963) Spanish singer and actress, Latin Grammy award winner
▪ Camarón de la Isla – (1950–1992) Spanish flamenco singer
▪ Kal – Romani world music Band from Serbia
▪ Nicolas Reyes – Franco-Spanish singer, guitar player
▪ Tonino Baliardo – Franco-Spanish guitar player
▪ Los Niños de Sara – French (Spanish origin, Iberian Kale) rumba and flamenco singers and guitar players
▪ Ketama – Spanish new-flamenco band
▪ Sasha Kolpakov – (born 1943) Russian guitarist
▪ Biréli Lagrène – (born 1966) French jazz guitarist, violinist and bassist
▪ Denny Laine – British musician (The Moody Blues, Wings)
▪ Félix Lajkó – (born 1974) Hungarian-Serbian violinist and composer (part Romani)
▪ Albert Lee - (born 1943) London born and raised country rock guitar legend. His father is Romanichal.[5]
▪ Joe Longthorne – (born 1955) English singer and impressionist
▪ Irini Merkouri – (born 1981) Greek pop singer
▪ Aggelopoulos Manolis – (1939–1989) Greek singer and actor
▪ Sofi Marinova – Bulgarian singer
▪ Boban Marković – Serbian brass bandleader and trumpet player
▪ Jerry Mason – American Singer, Guitarist
▪ Carlos Montoya – (1903–1993) Spanish flamenco guitarist
▪ Ramón Montoya – (1889–1949) Spanish flamenco guitarist
▪ Ivo Papazov – (born 1952) Bulgarian jazz clarinetist
▪ Manitas de Plata – (born 1921) Spanish guitarist
▪ Valentina Ponomaryova – (born 1939) Russian singer
▪ Dzej Ramadanovski – born 1964 in Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), modern Serbian folk singer
▪ Johnny Răducanu – (born 1931) Romanian jazz musician
▪ Esma Redzepova – (born 1943) Macedonian singer and songwriter
▪ Jimmy Rosenberg – (born 1980) Dutch swing guitarist
▪ Marianne Rosenberg – (born 1955) German singer and songwriter. Daughter of German Gypsy who survived Auschwitz.
▪ Tchavolo Schmitt – (born 1954) French jazz guitarist
▪ Taraful Haiducilor – (Taraf de Haïdouks) Romanian band, formed 1989
▪ Nicolae Neacşu ("Culai") – Lăutar, was the leader of Taraf de Haïdouks
▪ Wally Tax – Dutch rock singer, of The Outsiders. Son of a Dutch father and a Russian Romani mother.
▪ Martin Taylor – (born 1956) British guitarist born into a family of into a family with a gypsy or traveller tradition.
▪ Manuel Torre – (1878–1933) Spanish flamenco singer
▪ Isabel Pantoja – Spanish singer
▪ Mihaela Ursuleasa - Romanian pianist[6]
▪ Encarnación Salazar and Antonia Salazar, better known as "Azúcar Moreno". Spanish singers
▪ Ion Voicu – (1923–1997) Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor, founder of Bucharest Chamber Orchestra
▪ Sotis Volanis – Greek pop folk singer
▪ Harri Stojka – Austrian jazz guitarist
▪ Radoslav Banga – of Czech group Gypsy.cz
▪ Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin – Ayọ (stage name), German singer
▪ Didem – Turkish Bellydancer
▪ Romica Puceanu – (1928–1996) Romanian singer (Urban Lăutarească Music)
▪ Gabi Luncă – (born 1938) Romanian singer (Urban Lăutarească Music)
▪ Cher Lloyd – Popular singer. Her mother is of Romani ancestry.
▪ Esma Redžepova – Macedonian vocalist, songwriter, and humanitarian. Born in Skopje
▪ Pere Pubill Calaf "Peret" – (born 1935) Catalan Spanish singer, guitar player and composer