Which country is older between Germany and Austria?
Teddy described very well how things developed in the last centuries. Thus, I will add something more to ur question. Germany is older than Austria; its name was known by Romans. The historian and senator Cornelius Tacitus wrote a sort of essay about Germany and germanic tribes (I century ad); but even Caesar mentioned it in his De Bello Gallico. At that time, Germany covered an higher surface than that of today; it stretched from the Rhine till the modern Russia. The current Austria was largerly in the hands of Romans - precisely that part below the Danub river was a province named Noricum and inhabited by Italics, Hyllirians and Norii. It was not a nation and had not the self-consciousenss of being something like a united country. So, to make it short, without citing all the historical developments (Holy German Empire and so on), Germany is older than Austria. The Duchy of Austria was created later on (around the X -XI century ad).
Hmm, let’s figure this out in a logical way, by using various categories:Longest country name? UK.Best passport to use? Germany.Best at Empire building, and having biggest empire? UK.Eating snails? France.Being on the loosing side of World Wars? Germany.speaking French? Ger-just kidding, France.You can have as many categories as you want, but in the end, there is so many factors, that it comes down to natural preference. I, for example, am British, and I am a very proud Brit, so naturally I would say the UK. But a French guy might say France etc.I shall say the UK however, simply because I genuinely believe it :)
The consensus for a long time has been that it would be either China or India, or a combination of both and a competition between them. Both are “emerging” economies, in some point of transition towards being modern and/or democratic nations. Both have relatively young populations compared to Europe and even the USA. Both also have a national “drive” to accomplish or prove something on the world state where the US and European nations are very stagnant/complacent societies right now.An interesting concept to review is the concept of nations of the “Edge” versus nations of the “Center” which I feel sheds much light on the trajectory, if not the causes of ascendance and decline in societies.
Was the main 2 countries in WW2 UK and Germany?
"Was it almost like it was the UK v Germany, and other teams joined it." No. It is history, not sports. In 1939 yes given appearances it was Germany vs Britain, but that's hardly accurate. The Chinese had been fighting China since 1937, as well as Italy being goofy in Africa. Britain made and makes much of 'standing up to Hitler alone but that's hardly accurate. Canadian industry produced over 815000 military vehicles 52000 tanks and armoured gun carriers 43000 field, naval and anti-aircraft guns 1700000 small arms 11 billion dollars of munitions 16500 aircraft to fill Allied orders, chiefly from Britain & USA, but also for use by the RCAF and BCATP including Lancaster bombers and Mosquito fighter-bombers and night-fighters 9000 boats and ships Radar sets & Electronics 2 million tonnes of explosives Synthetic rubber Uranium for the ’Manhattan Project' Canada did not accept American Lend-Lease aid having it's own its own program for its allies called "Mutual Aid", supplying its allies with four billion dollars worth of war materiel. It lent money to Britain interest-free, gave it a gift of war supplies in January 1942, further credit of a billion dollars was given to Britain. Canada forgave all countries their Mutual Aid debt at war's end. Canada's contribution to the British Commonwealth Aircrew Training Plan involved almost 360 units and schools operating from approximately 230 sites not including relief airfields exceeding expectations: over 167000 students, including over 50000 pilots,four nations were trained as well as some 80000 ground crew, including approximately 17000 in the Women's Division. http://www.airmuseum.ca/bcatp.html ... and that's just Canada. The USA didn't enter WW2 until 1941... up until then it was Britain and other 'big players' fighting Germany. After Pearl Harbor the USA went on to become a big part. In June 1941 - 1945 some of the largest battles in world history occurred between Russia and Germany. The Japanese so fanatic and deadly it took two atomic bombs to knock them out of the war. "But were the 2 main Countries in WW2 the UK and Germany? " Grossly inaccurate.
Is Canada an older country than the USA?
Canada became it's own country in 1867. The USA in 1776. So, as a country, the USA is older. As for people, well, natives were in both for tens of thousands of years. Europeans first came to what is now Canada. The first confirmed Europeans were the Vikings, and "Vinland," which is L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland. There are stories of others: St. Brendan the Navigator, and Irish monk, and Farley Mowat wrote a book where he speculated that the "Albans," an ancient people from Britain migrated to Newfoundland. Few scholars accept his work though. Before Christopher Columbus made his voyage in 1492, he had spoken to Basque, Spanish, and Portuguese fishermen. They had been fishing the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, and likely used what is now St. John's harbour as a summer base. They kept this pretty quiet for competition reasons - the fishing there is superb, and they didn't want word to spread! But, it appears Columbus was relying on these stories (and those of the Vikings) when he made his voyage. The first overseas European Colony was made by Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Sir Walter Raleigh's half-brother), in St. Johns in 1533. But, it was mostly British and French peoples who came to the Americas in the north, and Spanish in more southern areas (and Portuguese to Brazil). There were several colonies. In 1763, the French were defeated, and all colonies in North America became British (except for St. Pierre and Michelon, and the ones in the Caribbean). At this time, there was no Canada or USA, just a collection of colonies. The more southerly ones were far more populated though, and these 13 were the ones that became the USA in 1776.
It depends upon how you look at the issue.In most ways china is far older. Its earliest settlement dates back more than 3,000 years. I usually use the Shang dynast c. 1200 BCE. By contrast the earliest permanent European settlements in N. America (e.g., Jamestown, Plymouth rock), are maybe 300 years old.Language. Something that resembled Chinese dates to the same 3,000 years. Something resembling English dates at best to 600 CE 1300 years ago. Again it came to the New World much later.Religious and cultural institutions. If I recall China really started evolving toward its current Civil Service System around the Sui dynast roughly 600 AD. Daoism and Confucianism are even older — maybe 500 BCE. BY contrast the Protestantism that predominates in teh USA comes from Martin Luther and John Calvin c. 1500 AD. Most American political institutions start to evolve between 1620 and 1750CE.There is one big exception. The current national government dates to 1789 CE when the ninth state adopted the Constitution. The current Chinese political regime dates to 1949 when the ROC fled to Taiwan.Thanks for the A2A.
The US has a far more diverse set of laws than Germany (closer to a comparison of the US to Webstern Europe).The more liberal states appear to have advanced LGBT rights, after a slow start in the 1970s, generally faster than Germany, the more conservative states have advanced less quickly. Due to overarching US Federal decisions, legality and equality of marriage/adoption was advanced slightly earlier in the US and many aspects of law now seem to be broadly at the same position as Germany, but some states do not provide LGBT people with protected class status. In more fundamentalist parts of the US there will definitely be less tolerance of LGBT people than on average in Germany.