Which country is most responsible for the rise and ascendancy of the Western and European world?

[Joe McCarthy]

Similar to the other thread but I've added a few more countries.

[Mercury]

I went with Greece, we wouldn't have made it far if it wasn't for Greek civilization.

[Raskolnikov]

Iran/China/Venezula.

[Sikeliot]

Italy and Greece.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Well, if we're talking about its very beginnings then I'd commend the Greeks for starting Western civilisation and the Italians for cementing it.

[Payens]

England, with its writers and inventors. Spain with its reconquista, global exploration, and defense of European Christianity. All European nations did their part, yet England and Spain pushed our superior European culture to a global level. A culture that was a symphony produced by all Europeans.

[Joe McCarthy]

Well, if we're talking about its very beginnings then I'd commend the Greeks for starting Western civilisation and the Italians for cementing it.

Yet the West only really began to outpace rival civilizations after the Age of Discovery, which rates Portugal and Spain highly, and then with Britain, the Netherlands, and modern economics and industrialism. The world in its luxuries and conveniences though is mostly a product of American inventions.

[Sikeliot]

I also have to give credit to Spain, Portugal, France, and Britain for spreading Western civilization to the New World

[Duckelf]

I picked quite a number of options as many different countries played a part. It is no accident that the greatest empires of the last few centuries have all been European, for the providence of history would have it that we rose together as a great European race.

[Wyn]

Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, England. Meant to vote for Spain in the poll, but apparently didn't select it.