Paleolithic Age
Paleolithic refers to when stone was used for tools, hunting, etc.
The two years prior to World War I in the region of the Balkans saw the rising of Serbian nationalistic Groups. Later came the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in the Balkan City of Sarajevo, main cause of the war.
Answer:
Japan and China share the writing system (and only the archaic characters and pronunciations), some architecture, one of the religions and some other things, but they are tremendously different countries.
They did it by riches and weath and economy