How has the US been affected by its relative lack of history?

He was one of the five men killed in the Boston Massacre, and that event certainly affected U.S. history, being one of the flashpoints leading up to the Amer... ... read more

Venus's surface shows evidence of major volcanic and tectonic activity in the past billion years, as expected for a planet nearly as large as Earth. This activity explains the relative lack of craters. read more

As a result, the United States has been the birthplace of 161 of Britannica's 321 Greatest Inventions, including items such as the airplane, internet, microchip, laser, cellphone, refrigerator, email, microwave, personal computer, Liquid-crystal display and light-emitting diode technology, air conditioning, assembly line, supermarket, bar code, automated teller machine, and many more. read more