Answered by Christian
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Apr. 26, 2021 13:48
They are all great discoveries, but paper should be the most important for civilizarion. Gunpowder changed warfare, and compass traveling, both significant improvements in both fields. Nevertheless paper allowed not only better daily communication, which alone is of higher relevance, but most importantly allowed countless other discoveries. This is because it enabled an improved way of gathering and recording knowledge, experiences, observations, history and learnings that could be passed easily to subsequent generatiins to teach and learn faster, effectively preventing "reinventing the wheel" on all areas, and accelerating very significantly the pace of technology and knowledge advances that allowed without a doubt the level we have today.