Here are some of the achievements of the Tang and Song Dynasties:
1. <span>Literature and arts influenced cultural diffusion between China, Japan, and Korea. This lead to ink painting
2. </span><span>Sailing and ocean trade lead to the invention of the compass and cultural diffusion
3. T</span><span>hey cultivated a lot of rice
4. </span><span>They had a bureaucracy , where people have a say
5. They made many long roads</span>
I do not believe that a strong nation should be able to boss around weaker nations. This is just wrong in that a nation should be free to decide what it wants to do. A strong nation can assist them in developing. How ever they should not rule them. At that point that weaker nation will be stripped by of their sovereignty. This is not that times of Empires.
Western European nations maintained democratic political systems.
We were the first to Claim Detroit as Motor City back in 1912
