Louis Pasteur contributed to society by discovering vaccination and microbial fermentation.
<span>The answer is "plowed fields and domesticated bulls"
Before the appearance of white European settlers in North America, there was limited agriculture practiced by the Native Americans, certainly nothing to the scale of the contemporary Europeans at the time. The same goes with domestication of animals, which was practiced on a much smaller scale by the pre-Columbian Natives. Indeed, many Europeans justified simply taking Native American territories because they weren't "being utilized" in the practice of growing crops; the notion was that whomever "made the land useful" had clear right to it.</span>
<span>Simon Bolivar was considered to be the George Washington of Latin America and thus had similar ideals to the Revolutionaries at the time. Thus these rights include Life, Liberty, Property, equality, and brotherhood.</span>
The revolutions is a turning point in the history of humanity because this is the time when freedom and equality is fought for everyone. It also signifies the rise of democracy as a powerful tool in nation building and fight for independence. It also signals the start of the fall of absolute monarchies and the fight for freedom of the colonies from the western powers that dominate the world stage for centuries.