I do, its just I think Greek mathematicians have had a bigger effect than Greek Politicians on the world. We are probably going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

I would agree that Greek Mathemticians had a bigger effect than Greek Politicians.

I disagree that any greek mathemitician had a bigger effect than any Greek Politician.

Take away all the greek mathematicians and it's a great tradgedy.   Take away one Greek mathmatician... it's not so big a deal.

It's not that their discoveries weren't huge... it's that their discoveries were inevitable.  If your discovery was inevitable, you deserve credit for getting their first, but you discovering it isn't groundbreaking.  It's that SOMEONE discovered it, and it someone is else was going to discover it a week or two later...

Only, as if Einsteins case, can you show that such a discovery would lead to a large gap in discovery is it a big deal.

Otherwise a few days is nothing compaired to outcomes of entire wars or countries.

Espiecally considering it often lead to the survival or destruction of such knowledge.

Just on sheer volume of work. Although it was a tough choice. 

Off the top of my head (not necessarily in order)

1. Winston Churchill - Amazing leader. Stood his ground against the nazis unlike that pisshead Chamberlain whose plan to appease the Germans failed miserably.

2. Harry S. Truman - Had the balls to drop a big fucking bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki winning the war in the Pacific for the USA.

3. Honest Abe Lincoln - Freed the slaves. Also won the civil war and sent those good old boys back to the deep south where they belong.

4. Josef Stalin - This guy didn't fuck around. He was a cold hearted bastard who called his son a failure because he couldn't even kill himself when he tried to. Also without Russia you'd all be eating sauerkraut and schnitzels. On the downside he was a communist piece of shit.

5. Adolf Shitler..er, I mean Hitler - He was a complete asshole, but on the bright side he hated communists and fixed Germany's economy. Killed himself like a little bitch after getting his ass kicked by USA, Britain and Russia.

6. The Beatles - The greatest rock band and probably one of the most influential ever.

7. Karl Marx - A communist piece of shit motherfucker who wants the world to be a fairytale where everyone lives out in a forest alongside the deer and there's rainbows everywhere and we all share and hold hands. Man up you piece of shit.

8. Henry Ford - He didn't invent cars, but he was one of the first to mass produce them and make them affordable. If it wasn't for him...well someone else would have done it a couple years later. At least he was a capitalist and not a pussy ass bitch commie red scumbag motherfucker.

9. Kim Campbell (joke entry) - The worst prime minister in Canadian history. She wasn't elected she only got in because Mulroney was a piece of shit and had to leave office. When she ran for re-election the conservatives lost the election by the largest margin in history for their party.

10. Ben Franklin - Electricity.

Who?

TheSource mentioned it in the OP.

Oh.

Anyway, wasn't he looking for India? At least he must have thought he landed first on India, right?

Yes, but i believe his ultimate purpose was to find Cathay.

What's Cathay? It sounds like the name of a hot woman.

I wonder how many people realize that everyone already knew the world was round.  That's probably even lesser known.