A study by MITI - Japan's equivalent of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - concluded that 54% of the world's most important inventions of the past 100 years were British. Of the rest, 25% were American and 5% Japanese.
The MITI study means little. It clearly is wrong.
Clearly the US has been the most influential nation in the world.
The USA has been the most influential nation in history. It's ground breaking in free government and the number of Nobel Prize winners is astounding. Just counting one invention, the airplane, is one indicator.
Teleivision,telephone,computers,radio,light bulb,fridges,toiles & toilet paper,Baseball,Golf,Royal Navy,The police force,jet engine & jet powerd flight,military tank,hovercraft,radar,D.N.A, special olympics,rubber & rubber tyres,champagne,tin cans,modern medacine,ipod,scuba & diving gear, the list goes on and on and on.....
Not to mention The British Empire,Britain ruled more of the world than anyother country in history,its history,language and culture is spread rite around the globe. The British empire has the distinction of enslaving millions upon millions of peoples.
Britain has the most sucesfull,hardest,longest and most copied Military in the world with the British S.A.S being copied by around 17-20 diffrent countrys with the majority of those countrys basing there military on the British S.A.S.
Britain also plays a big role in telivison and music, just 2 examples.... The Beatles being the biggest selling band in the world,and James Bond being the longest running film franchise of all time.
Hollywood is the largest place for films and other types of entertainment.
Brazil is the most successful Nation in the history of Football, having won the world cup 5 Times
Eclipse
1990
nuclear bomb
justin beiber
The most influential teacher in Chinese history.
What artist from the 1960's is considered the greatest and most influential guitarists in Rock Music History? is it jimmi hendrix?
jacky chan
Neil Armstrong's moonwalking.
one of the most influential and respected philosophers in Chinese history, like for example: Confucius in Chinese is 孔夫子.
Pythagorus
baby boomers