England and France
England: War of 1812
France: The reign of Napoleon and consequently, war
Lots of them lost their husbands and some got really hurt
Da Vinci has influenced inventors even to this day. He has some of the earliest known plans and prototypes for parachutes, diving suits, and a form of a battle tank. His plans have increased the amount contributions to modern inventions. Now in his time I don't know much.
They abandoned the nomadic life by developing farming techniques through water management, including canal-building, water storag, drainage, irrigation.
With the prosperity which this generated, they moved on to development of almost all the techniques that formed the basis of civilized life before the industrial revolution: architecture, transport, metalworking, carpentry, pottery, glass-making, textile manufacture and leather-working as well as many processes associated with farming and food preparation. In southern Mesopotamia irrigation and flood control were necessary and this gave rise to a number of subsidiary technologies of
