Invent anything and we will use it for fighting.

From a list of " 100 Events That Changed The World " in the National Geographic, 14 events have been selected which show how man has used every invention for the purpose of killing. Man learnt the controlled use of fire 1.4 million years ago, which immediately gave us a defence against wild animals and allowed us to keep warm, cook food and create light after sunset. Fire would be used later to mould metal into arms. If there is one invention that civilisation rests on it must be that of the wheel in 3,500 BCE. Transport, pottery and pulleys all depend on wheels, but by 2,000 BCE Hittities were using chariots for war. They also started using iron by 1,400 BCE, which quickly led to weapons and armor made of iron. In 1569 CE new maps of the world with variably spaced latitude lines would make navigation at sea much easier. This would lead to the colonisation of Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas by white Europeans, resulting in widespread genocide, slavery and plunder of resources, whose effects are being felt till today. The industrial revolution, which started in 1712, would allow Europeans to subjugate peoples of the world but also resulted in wars between themselves, as each nation tried to gain dominance, resulting in the two World Wars. In 1876 Graham Bell invented the telephone which revolutionised communications and could be used to send signals in code. In 1903 the first manned flight would take warfare to the skies and would lead to the theory of 'shock and awe', a bombing of such ferocity that any population would be devastated . The power of the atom was used by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, probably as trial and also for revenge for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Today 9 countries have nuclear weapons, with Iran on the threshold of making one. Terrorists in Libya took control of 11 commercial jetliners last year and ISIS has got hold of a flight simulator to train some of its fighters to fly airplanes. ISIS is looking to buy nuclear weapons. Load a nuke into a commercial plane, fly low over the sea onto a city in Europe and explode the bomb in a suicide mission. Not hard to imagine, is it? The latest Star Wars movie has already raked in over $1 billion and as the name says, it is not about love among the stars but about killing, although they have tried to put an intellectual gloss on the fighting by feeling 'The Force' and the use of the lightsaber. The ISIS has been adept at using the internet as a recruiting tool by showing extreme violence interspersed with pictures of celebrating Eid, farming and fishing. Now scientists are  close to finding ways to regenerate limbs lost in battle. We can look forward to armies of invincible cyborgs taking over the world, coolly replacing a damaged part with another. No wonder man has used even God for fighting.