Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
If we take modern as "starting with the reformation" like usually in history, I would guess Britain, especially since the US is an offshoot. Along with much of the world.



Penicillin was discovered by a scot, a bunch of economists were scottish too...I think a bunch of the early sporting institutions were formed in britain...And there are more famous german philosophers than french...the puritans believed that women couldn't conceive without having an orgasm...actually I don't think anything from your list is mainly french...
Actually, the orgasm this was a common belief from antiquity until the 19th century, at which point doctors starting advocating female circumcision to reduce your wife's libido.

Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Germany.
If by that you mean "in the last hundred years" then I would have to dissagree - the major ramification of WWI were the decline of the British, French and Russian states and these were US policy objectives. It was achived by sitting out most of the war and only coming in to "save the day" once Britian and France agreed to relax trade franchises, thereby gimping their economies for the next forty years.

Germany was just a patsy.