Just curious about this. Wondered how people viewed such questions from places well-distanced from where I live.

Firstly, I apologise if I've omitted a serious contender to the 'prize'. Clearly, I'm a victim of my own geographical location and historical/political brainwashing. Not to mention my relative ignorance of other countries/continents.

The other point that I wish to make, is that I deliberately offered the option of England or Britain. For anyone familiar with British history, this should need no explanation. That is, 'Britain' has only been a nation for a relatively-short time... and many would argue that it has its roots in 'England'. On the other hand, many would argue that 'Britain' was the nation that held all of the power synonymous with the 'British Empire'.

... There may be similar stories that need to be told about other nations/states.

Anyway, feel free to tell me why 'Tasmania', for example, has the most interesting/influential history. I'm all for learning something new.

For my own part, leaving aside any brainwashing about my own nation, I would opt for Israel/Holy Land, closely followed by Italy (Roman Empire).


Edited to add: I've allowed 2 votes per user, and you can change your mind.

Africa's been quite influential in an evolutionary sense.

HomerJay wrote:Africa's been quite influential in an evolutionary sense.

Apparently - if one considers the origin of humanity to be more significant than the origin of 'evolution'.

I'll go with Britain. Most influential inventions up to today (Computers, TV, radio etc).
What's the world language? English. Politics? British Empire. I could go on...

United States, for the most obvious reasons.

Country X, for the most obvious reasons.

If it comes to interesting, Italy, hands down. I can't think of an uninteresting period of Italian history up until the end of WW II.

Influence is more difficult to address, given how everything in history is built upon what comes before, I guess it has to be Mesopotamia, excluding Africa as there is no history there, only prehistory.

reisender wrote:Country X, for the most obvious reasons.

You are the most hilarious person on this board.

I voted france .We obviously are the center and the inspiration of secular humanism , fine arts , philosophy , enlightment, culture , and chauvinism.

Thommo wrote:

Areopagitican wrote:United States, for the most obvious reasons.

The obvious reason being that you live there?

It'd certainly wouldn't make much sense if I thought America was or wasn't something, in spite of never being there.

India. We did absolutely nothing for the past 10000 years or so. Just smirked at the pointlessness of it all.

The one true philosopher nation.

Australian history ftw.

For the first 40000 years, the aboriginal people of Australia lived off the land, building huts and spears. They even came into contact with the Indonesians to perform trades.

Then white man settled here 150 years ago.


OH wait, i forgot to mention the global flood and how the aboriginals dealt with it.

Just to let you know, I changed the poll. You can now vote for 2 countries... and you can change your mind at a later date.

I thought that many people would vote for their own country, but I'm interested in what their interests are beyond that.

Italy and Greece, Britain and Mongolia.

ETA: And Egypt.

James, never mind this nonsense, get back to your reality. The thread, that is.

And hey, there's no Scotland!!!??? WTF? Did anthroban get to you that much? hehe

So, where's Austria in there?

HomerJay wrote:Africa's been quite influential in an evolutionary sense.

Cheating a bit to consider an entire continent though, isn't it?

I'm trying to be objective but Industrial Revolution Britain, and the formation of British Empire, keeps coming up as a real winner for me as a force for both much that is good and bad in the modern world.