Well every great civilization has its end, I dont think that can be considerd criteria or all except America are elminated.

The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

Case Closed!

'Nuff Said!



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Why some ask, where's why!

1. Baseball
2. John M. Browning
3. The Idea of Freedom and Liberty
4. Samuel Colt
5. Eugne Stoner
6. Henry Ford
7. Wright Brothers
8. Cowboys
9. Firearms Ownership
10. Anyone can make it in the US. I have and you can too.

5.56x45mm...... Well if that is criterion for a world power then we gave the world some of the following.

Scocer
Rugby... With a few changes you call it American football
Cricket
Rounders... you call it baseball
Golf
Curling
The first bill of rights [the Magna Carata 1215]
The first country to ban slavery
The Industrial Revolution
the Bessemer Furnace
Construction in Iron & Steel
The Railway
The Steam Turbine
The Aircraft Carrier
The Tank
The Jet Engine
The Radio
Television
The Computer
The English Language
American Law is based on British Law
Instead of Cowboys, we have Robin Hood, or the Knight of the Round Table.
I could fill a couple pages of British achievements

And Fish and Chips!!!!!!!!

Yes but all those were back when Britian ruled the High seas.

America lately has developed everything.

The Internet
The Microprocessor
The cell-phone
Nuclear Weapons
(Im pretty sure we had the first computer but im too lazy to do research)
Modren production methods (Henry Ford)
Space Travel
Landing on the moon
The precision guided bomb
The nuclear powerd engine
The nuclear powerd submarine
The nuclear powerd Aircraft carrier
Stealth Aircraft
The laptop computer
The DVD
The CD
The airplane
Nascar
( I also think the Germans deserve credit for the Jet engine)
American Football(it is most defintely nothing like rugby)
The credit card
Video games
Space shuttle
The Hamburger
The machine gun
First Iron clad battle ship
The radio (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexr.shtml)
The Traffic light
The Gas mask
Tape
The Telegraph
The telephone
Toliet paper for peat sakes
Modren Farming requipemtn (the combine etc)
The Typewriter
Blue jeans
Bubble Gum
The can
Penut Butter
Coke a cola
Crayons
Disposable Diaper
The iron
The modern Elevator
The escelator
The Hot-dog
The submarine
On and on


Every nation has its list of Inventions Americas is just very very very long.

The Internet

But we invented the world wide web, without which there would be no internet

Nuclear Weapons

You could argue the Germans invented that, it was their scientists

Space Travel

Didn`t the ruskies beat you to that?

The DVD
The CD

I`m pretty sure Phillips invented the CD, they are a dutch company.

British Law is a Monarchy which followed hundreds of Monarchys i dont see how thats unique

Actually, Parlimentry democracy is the basis of British law.

I also think the Germans deserve credit for the Jet engine)

Sir Frank Whittle will be turning in his grave at that statement.

Video games

Japanese

The machine gun

i might be wrong but didn`t hiram maxim sell it to the British army first ?

The Hamburger

German.

The credit card

But you totally redeem yourself with that one, i would be so in the i f i didn`t have a credit card to spend money i didn`t have

Well if its about what a nation invented then I'm switching to Babylon.
They invented beer!
Enough said...

...and the invention of Hot Dogs is right up their with fried cochroaches (which were offered to me in Malaysia once)

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Video games


Japanese

Pong was the first video game and it was american, along with Atari.

Space travel i was reffering to manned space flight like to the moon. Not orbiting

There were as many Americans working on the bomb as Germans and those germans were techincally americans as well.

I dont want this to get into a who invented what pi$$ing match so lets just say both American and Great Britian have there days.

well first of all, thanks to the British America was created, dont you all think so lads?

THE GREATEST MILLITARY POWER IN HISTORY ...would be the united states air force....basically....united states is stronger than alot of countries....okay....a vast majority