The Chinese used a form of decimal time for thousands of years, until Europeans came along. So perhaps we should say decimal time gave us gunpowder? (Seeing the other random connection that has been made).Some french folks tried that and it didn't go so well![]()
The Greeks divided daylight into 12 units and adjusted the length of the units to fit the length of the day.
Jumping to mass murder is an interesting choice. Enough mass murder has been committed by humans that you can take ANY concept you want and tie it to humans who committed mass murder (murder being distinct from killing).History shows over and over that when people rise up and start changing everything and become radically iconoclastic, things get weird afterwards. The people that tear down monuments one day will be bulldozing bodies into mass graves the next. It's why why wise people make changes slowly if at all.
Many monuments are built to paper over mass murder. Just look at the former USSR if you want examples. Do you think tearing down monuments to Stalin was bad? What about the pesky colonials who destroyed a monument to King George on 7/9/1776?
Now, WTF happened. The history of the mil, and why it is 6,400 mil per circle rather than 6,283.185 MRAD per circle is more appropriate.