>Guardian puts Shakespeare as the 4th most influential person

He invented several words and phrases, he was basically a meme lord, maybe in 400 years they'll look back on pepe as one of the most influential works of art

>>3010978
Anglo bias, obviously

I mean i understand Darwin but who the fuck cares about Elizabeth I or Victoria

>>3010978
>Three of the top 10 are US presidents
Can the rest of the world even compete?

>>3010978
>Jesus
>Implying...

Inb4 muh Josephus

>>3010978
>most influential
>Americans
Before ww1 no one cared
Alexander king of kings is clearly more influential due to his hellenisation project uniting the east and west until Muhammad piss be upon him emerged from Satan's cave
>st peter and other church fathers missing and Luther that high
>Victoria that low
A covurg on every throne
Anyway it's the guardian the champagne socialist paper, care about what the telegraph thinks

>>3010978
He is definitely not the 4th most influential person in history but he had some sick rhymes. If you read his shit, you can see his genius. Also, read it out loud. Its meant to be read out loud.

>>3010981
>Victoria
>what is royal marriages securing peace in Europe
>>3011019
Mohammed is high because of islamic imperialism
>>3010989
Yes because Jefferson should not warrant this list, Churchill obviously before that war monger

>>3010978
I tried to pay attention in literature class in high school. Thankfully I took AP so my teacher was somewhat competent, and his plays are actually really good. You find a lot of modern media (story telling) borrows elements that he revolutionized in his plays.

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>>3010978
>No Roosevelt
>No Wilson

You have to admit it, those guys contributed to created the modern world more than we would like to know. They created the informal American empire, which is based on free trade economy.

I know you will shit on me, and so I ask you: why Stalin?
Inb4: muh communist society

>>3011100
>why Stalin?

He saved Russia from the kulaks.

>>3010978

>inspiration for a massive chunk of literature
>he just wrote some plays

Caesar way too low

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>>3010978
>Muhammad on 3rd place
>Thomas Jefferson instead of Thomas Paine
>von Bismarck not even on the list

wew

>>3010978
Shouldn't Plato replace Aristotle.

>>3010978
If anything you should put Cicero instead of Shakespeare since he had an impact on writing and speaking that is still felt all across Europe and other parts of the world.

>>3011158
Shouldn't Socrates replace Plato.

>>3010978
>Abraham Lincoln