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Most impactful small country in world history?
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:25 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce My two nominees are Portugal and Sweden. Obviously the further you go back Portugal takes it with the whole Age of Exploration shit. But Sweden invented Zyn, pop music, furniture, matches that don't explode, and file sharing. It's gotta be close! (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029495) |
Date: July 28th, 2026 11:25 AM Author: Histrionic burgundy old irish cottage liquid oxygen (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029497) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:28 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce Forgot Portugal gave the world cans of sardines. Although TECHNICALLY a French invention. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029500) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:39 AM Author: Histrionic burgundy old irish cottage liquid oxygen (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029526) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:29 AM Author: Bonkers cumskin pop music? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029504) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:36 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce ABBA, Ace of Base, Robyn, and virtually every major hit by Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney Spears, Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Ariana Grande, and The Weeknd were written by a Swede. Country with 10 million people account for a massive percentage of American pop music. In deference to Norway, they wrote most of Rhianna's bangers. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029513) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:37 AM Author: Bonkers cumskin Pop music existed before ABBA. Christ, the Beatles are essentially a pop band (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029518) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:40 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce Not really though. The Beatles were a Skiffle act that branched out into Rock n Roll. Bubble gum pop as we know it is a product of the nineteen hundred and nineties. it's not even disputable. The Mall would not be the Same without Scandinavians. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029530) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:43 AM Author: Bonkers cumskin Wrong! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegum_music |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:45 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce yeah I obviously wasn't talking about the Brill Building era but the widely repurposed namesake for the type of Britney/Xtina garbage we grew up on. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029552) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:36 AM Author: Yapping den candlestick maker Spain (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029514) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:37 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce To big fam but obviously Spain and Italy mog here (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029515) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:37 AM Author: Glittery Mexican Vatican (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029519) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: Emerald people who are hurt (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030420) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:39 PM Author: Diverse plum psychic jap (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030483) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:37 AM Author: Shaky piazza netherlands basically invented modern glocap and spread it across the planet (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029520) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:41 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce Twice the population of Sweden/Portugal but fair point. They also invented Protestantism as we know it. They were the first to refute Predestination while still maintaining a lot of Calvin's Reformed Theology. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029535) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:42 AM Author: Bonkers cumskin (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029539) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:42 AM Author: Startling stage macaca (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029542) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 4:41 PM Author: Autistic soggy native Netherlands and Portugaul are good answers. Sweden has invented some interesting things, but hasn't really moved the needle on world history in the same way. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030358) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 4:53 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt) (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030382) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 4:59 PM Author: Glittery Mexican (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030394) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:41 AM Author: Bonkers cumskin Don't sleep on the Dutch. Very important in the rise of capitalism and they had an overseas empire as well. They also played a major role in Europe (revolt against the Hapsburgs, sitting on the throne of England and the Glorious Revolution, etc.) starting around 16th century that Portugal really did not have. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029536) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:42 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce o7s in the chat for the Dutch. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029541) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:43 AM Author: Startling stage macaca Someone said Netherlands above (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029545) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:43 AM Author: outnumbered french brunch yes the whole trend of couches/chairs/beds that give you backaches and the frame cracks after a few months, while putting ppl who made actual high quality shit out of business was a very impactful movement. good job sweden. you deserve every last muslim you wave in (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029544) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:43 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce The irony is that the founder lived most of his life in Switzerland for tax purposes LOL (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029547) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:48 AM Author: walnut dopamine How is this an example of irony? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029558) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 12:00 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce he built his business on the back of Swedish heritage and culture and then moved to a tax haven so he wouldn't have to pay back into it ig (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029586) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:48 AM Author: Salmon Arousing Kitchen if youre including impactful in negative ways its israel i believe (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029557) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:50 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce they don't have a long enough track record. Also the DEagle did not meaningfully change the world despite what some fans of CounterStrike might have you believe. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029563) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:52 AM Author: Salmon Arousing Kitchen i have no idea what youre trying to say. year for year they have done massive damage. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029566) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:54 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce whom did they damage (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029572) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:56 AM Author: Salmon Arousing Kitchen the us (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029576) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:41 PM Author: Diverse plum psychic jap They’re literally actively engaged in what has been judicially determined to be a genocide as we speak. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030486) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:47 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce Oh no, not the brown clowns! (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030493) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:59 AM Author: Startling stage macaca Well if you assume Israel = Jews, then my God do they have a negative track record on the world. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029583) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 12:00 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce They only did shit to brownoids and the economy. NBD. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029588) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:49 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt) If we're counting Judea over time it becomes hard to deny period. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030496) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:50 AM Author: mind-boggling foreskin theater stage Greece (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029562) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:51 AM Author: deranged wine lettuce yeah that's a good one. although how small was it really at the height of it's power? It was like a huge empire. It's only small w/r/t today. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029565) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:52 AM Author: bipolar shitlib In terms of XO content, probably Andorra (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029567) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:53 AM Author: Histrionic burgundy old irish cottage liquid oxygen (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029568) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 11:56 AM Author: Citrine Toilet Seat Becky eastern point of view, hong kong. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029575) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 12:01 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce can you elaborate more? I don't know shit about Asian history. What all did HK do? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50029592) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 4:39 PM Author: Abnormal passionate area degenerate Venice (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030351) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:10 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce Pre 1700 definitely. Less so post 1800. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030427) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: irradiated shrine Denmark if it counts DUH (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030361) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:10 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce Explain some of their achievements besides whatever the fuck is an æbleskive (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030424) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 9:01 PM Author: irradiated shrine Basically conquered England multiple times and guarded white civilization at critical times. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030843) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 9:09 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce what was like their biggest battle they won to protect the world (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030851) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 4:53 PM Author: Autistic soggy native If we're going pound for pound champ, it's England with a bullet. They're on a small island. Their population is about 1/6 of the US, less than 1/20 of India and China. And despite that, they are the undisputed POTUS and driving force of world history, civilization, commerce, and industry from, let's say, 1588 (defeat of the Spanish Armada) until they decided to give it all up circa 1945. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030381) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:12 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce 100% Agree however for purposes of this exercise Nederland is the maximum size. But no disagreement in general. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030432) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:18 PM Author: Aphrodisiac sanctuary Yeah this is the answer, lol at the other answers ITT. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030449) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:35 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce It's too yuge to qualify (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030478) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:43 PM Author: Aphrodisiac sanctuary And Sweden isn't? huh? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030489) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:48 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce UK has 7 times the population of the Kingdom of Sweden hth (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030494) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: Emerald people who are hurt Vatican City (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030419) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:10 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce Post 1500, though? Probably not... (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030425) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:20 PM Author: Disgusting Spectacular Headpube Macedonia (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030450) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:46 PM Author: Opaque harsh newt spot culturally, iceland. from the old sagas to modern pop music. all from a tiny population on a frigid island. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030491) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 5:49 PM Author: deranged wine lettuce Strongman competitions (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030495) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 9:13 PM Author: High-end boistinker friendly grandma Israel and it isn’t close (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5887034&forum_id=2#50030857) |