So for pretty much all of modern History the Europeans have been on top. The only other race of people that can compare would be the Asians, with the Japanese, but even they were still comparatively behind the Europeans up to the first half of the 20th century.For a long time throughout History it would've seemed the Chinese were the most advanced race, as they invented vaccines and gunpowder, and were able to field armies into the hundreds of thousands.Despite discovering guns first, the Chinese failed to capitalize on it, and the Europeans adopted guns to great effect. Why did this happen?So since the late Middle Ages Europe has been able to dominate the colonize the world.Why did all of this happen?
purely socioeconomic factors
>>18118314>MARCH OF THE TITANSkek
They had the faustian spirit o algoAlso being away from nomadic invaders helps
>>18118314They were more violent.
>>18118314Extreme Darwinistic competition and struggle for survival, also race (even if we are ignoring bioessentialism they are generally the tallest and strongest humans), geography, boats, not getting raped by nomads (at least after the Magyars and not including Eastern Europe)
>>18118749Also Europe would be like China if the Roman Empire didn't fall and would be a bit more like Africa if the Romans never existed to begin with
>>18118314For most of human history wealth was concentrated along the Northern or Southern Silk Road corridor between the Middle East and China. With some spreading into the Greek area. Europe west of Greece was largely not that significant. Rome was densely populated, but the real wealth and development was out East, in Syria, Greece, and Egypt. Western Europe only became ascendant over other ancient old world empires in the 17th and 18th centuries. By the late 20th century that gap had begun to close again. Desertification crippled the Middle East substantially to a point where it will probably never be as great as it once was. But India and China will obviously regain parity at the very least. Firearms in Europe were so successful because of continual failures for any Empire to unify the continent. If Charles V would have been able to parlay his Spanish-Austrian power base into conquering France and Italy, then that would have massively slowed military development in the reduced military competition afterward. Instead he failed, and you had centuries of arms races between powers. What you saw in other regions was often a single great empire managing to conquer great amounts of territory and establishing a hegemony where military development was unnecessary and even undesirable.
