India's political and economic success would be very crucial to the future of democracy in Asia because India is the only democratic country where people can practice any religion of their choice. India is surrounded by certain countries that have harbored terrorism and it can destroy the world, if India falls. Countries like China are also trying to support these kind of countries and India is the only hope.
The Incans did not have the wheel, money, or writing, (scholars are still trying to figure that one out. though...) but they did have alcohol/corn beer.
Six new countries that formed as a direct result of WWI were Poland, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Estonia. The countries were formed after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the House of Habsburg and the German empire.