Technology:


Pottery: "The empty vessel makes the loudest sound." - Shakespeare

Animal Husbandry: "A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor." - Xenophon

Mining:

Sailing: "One doesn't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore." - Andre Gide

Astrology: "Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars." - Nicolaus Copernicus

Irrigation:

Writing:

Archery:

Masonry: "I will build a great wall - and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me - and I'll build it very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall." - Donald Trump

Bronze Working:

Wheel:

Celestial Navigation: "The world is nearly all parceled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonized. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex these planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear, yet so far." - Cecil Rhodes

Currency:

Horseback Riding: "Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse." - Groucho Marx


Iron Working:

Shipbuilding: "If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Mathematics:

Construction:

Engineering:

Military Tactic: “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.” - General George S. Patton

"If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there" - Georgy Zhukov

Apprenticeship:

Stirrups:

Machinery:

Education:

Military Engineering: “Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.” - General George S. Patton

Castles:

Cartography:

Mass Production:

Banking: "The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply." - Nathan Rothschild

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson

Gunpowder: "We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder." Andre Maurois


Printing:

Square Rigging:

Astronomy:

Metal Casting:

Siege Tactics:

Industrialization:

Scientific Theory:

Ballistics:

Military Science:

Steam Power:

Sanitation:

Economics: "If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists." -  Friedrich Hayek

Rifling:

Flight:

Replaceable Parts:

Steel:

Electricity: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." - Thomas Edison

Radio: "The radio is the most influential and important intermediary between a spiritual movement and the nation, between the idea and the people" - Joseph Goebbels

Chemistry:

Combustion:

Advanced Flight:

Rocketry: "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?" - Tom Lehrer

Advanced Ballistics:

Combined Arms: "The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis." - Post-war debriefing of a German general

Plastics:

Computers:

Nuclear Fission:

Synthetic Materials:

Telecommunications:

Satellites:

Guidance Systems:

Lasers:

Composites: “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” - Aristotle

Stealth Technology: "If you're not alert, sometime, a German son-of-an-asshole-bitch is going to sneak up behind you and beat you to death with a sockful of shit!" - George S. Patton

Robotics:

Nuclear Fusion:

Nanotechnology:

Future Tech: "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney


Culture:


Code of Laws:

Craftsmanship:

Foreign Trade:

Military Tradition:

State Workforce:

Early Empire:

Mysticism:

Games and Recreation:

Political Philosophy: "You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves." - George Orwell

Drama and Poetry:

Military Training:

Defense Tactics:

Recorded History: "History is written by the victor." - Winston Churchill

"Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American people than with your image in the history books." - General Turgidson, Dr. Strangelove

Theology:

Naval Tradition:

Feudalism:

Civil Service:

Mercenaries:

Medieval Faires:

Guilds:

Divine Right:

Exploration:

Humanism:

Diplomatic Service:

Reformed Church:

Mercantilism:

The Enlightenment:

Colonialism: "If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible." - Cecil Rhodes

Civil Engineering:

Nationalism: "The most precious possession you have is your own people" - Adolf Hitler

Opera and Ballet:

Natural History:

Urbanization:

Scorched Earth: "I only understand friendship or scorched earth." - Roger Ailes

Conservation:

Mass Media: "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx


Mobilization:

Capitalism:

Ideology: “The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Nuclear Program: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” - Albert Einstein

Suffrage: "Give the likes of Baldrick the vote and we'll be back to cavorting druids, death by stoning and dung for dinner." - Edmund Blackadder

Totalitarianism: "As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of children the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation." - Adolf Hitler

Class Struggle:  "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war... and we're winning." - Warren Buffett

Cultural Heritage: "We cannot just give our country to complete strangers on an impulse because it makes us feel good about ourselves." - Peter Hitchens

Cold War:

Professional Sports:

Rapid Deployment: “May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.” ― General George S. Patton

Space Race: "I hope we never find life on another planet because if we do there's no doubt that the United States will start sending them money!" - Donald Trump


Globalization: "We will no longer surrender this country and its people to the false song of globalism." - Donald J. Trump

Social Media: "Delete your account." - Hillary Clinton


Wonders:


Alhambra:

Big Ben:

Bolshoi Theatre:

Broadway:

Chichen Itza:

Colosseum:

Colossus:

Cristo Redentor:

Eiffel Tower: "A scar on the face of Paris." - Bezu Fache

Estadio Do Maracana:

Forbidden City:

Great Lighthouse:

Great Library:

Great Pyramids: "From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us" - Napoleon Bonaparte

Great Zimbabwe:

Hagia Sophia:

Hanging Gardens:

Hermitage:

Huey Teocalli:

Mahabodhi Temple:

Mont St Michel:

Oracle: "The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing." - Socrates

Oxford University:

Petra:

Potala Palace:

Ruhr Valley:

Stonehenge:

Sydney Opera House: "There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free." - Russell Crowe

Terracotta Army:

Venetian Arsenal:


Natural Wonders:


Great Barrier Reef: "Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted." - Sylvia Earle

White Cliffs of Dover:

Crater Lake:

Dead Sea:

Mount Everest: "Well George, we’ve knocked the bastard off." - Sir Edmund Hillary

Galapagos Islands:

Mount Kilimanjaro:

Pantanal:

Piopiotahi:

Torres del Paine:

Tsingy de Bemaraha:

Yosemite: