Why Europe?

[Unkotare]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

They stole gunpowder from the Chinese....

Most likely purchased from Arab peoples along the Silk Road.

 

[xband]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

Europeans probably drink lead tainted water and only a product of their environment.

 

[TheOldSchool]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

They stole gunpowder from the Chinese....

Most likely purchased from Arab peoples along the Silk Road.

Doesn't matter where they got it. They figured out it could be used to kill people, and they used that knowledge with aplomb to dominate the last 500-600 years of history because of it.

 

[Unkotare]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

They stole gunpowder from the Chinese....

Most likely purchased from Arab peoples along the Silk Road.

Doesn't matter where they got it. They figured out it could be used to kill people.....

They didn't have to figure it out. The ancient Chinese already knew that. The Europeans made advancements in potency, efficiency, and range of weapons.

 

[xband]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

They stole gunpowder from the Chinese....

Most likely purchased from Arab peoples along the Silk Road.

Doesn't matter where they got it. They figured out it could be used to kill people, and they used that knowledge with aplomp to dominate the last 500-600 years of history because of it.

plumb is latin for lead

 

[Two Thumbs]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

Ship building.

Opened up sea trade with the whole world.


Tribes (countries) got along much better than most of the world and still do.
But they liked to outdo each other.

 

[TheOldSchool]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

They stole gunpowder from the Chinese....

Most likely purchased from Arab peoples along the Silk Road.

Doesn't matter where they got it. They figured out it could be used to kill people.....

They didn't have to figure it out. The ancient Chinese already knew that. The Europeans made advancements in potency, efficiency, and range of weapons.

And they killed a whole lot of people. They ended entire civilizations, and set countries and entire continents back several centuries with their conquests.

I guess we've answered your OP question.

 

[Unkotare]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

Ship building.

Opened up sea trade with the whole world.


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You skipped a few steps.

 

[xband]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

Ship building.

Opened up sea trade with the whole world.


Tribes (countries) got along much better than most of the world and still do.
But they liked to outdo each other.[/QUOTE
In my experience all races are competitive and contemplative, The nature of the beast.

 

[Two Thumbs]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

Ship building.

Opened up sea trade with the whole world.


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You skipped a few steps.

you asked for reasons, I gave you a couple.

large nations working as one v small nations killing each other, internally, b/c they are not exactly the same.

 

[Two Thumbs]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

Ship building.

Opened up sea trade with the whole world.


Tribes (countries) got along much better than most of the world and still do.
But they liked to outdo each other.[/QUOTE
In my experience all races are competitive and contemplative, The nature of the beast.

true, but the eu's stopped slaughtering each other wholesale for a very long time.

Africans still kill each other over tribal differences and it's the same in some asian countries.

toss in islam and it's a near free for all

 

[xband]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

Ship building.

Opened up sea trade with the whole world.


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You skipped a few steps.

you asked for reasons, I gave you a couple.

large nations working as one v small nations killing each other, internally, b/c they are not exactly the same.

Darwin: The strong survive and the weak perish and find a niche and exploit it.

 

[Meathead]

The success of the West is clearly based on the Renaissance with the rediscovery of scientific principle instead of the dogma of the Catholic church. The mantles of Greece and Rome were brought forth to modern thinking after a 1000 year hiatus.

At that point everything changed, as did Europe fortunes.

 

[Unkotare]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

Ship building.

Opened up sea trade with the whole world.


.

You skipped a few steps.

you asked for reasons, I gave you a couple.

large nations working as one v small nations killing each other, internally, b/c they are not exactly the same.

Other regions could claim the same, and yet....

 

[Unkotare]

The success of the West is clearly based on the Renaissance with the rediscovery of scientific principle instead of the dogma of the Catholic church. The mantles of Greece and Rome were brought forth to modern thinking after a 1000 year hiatus.....

That's an old, largely discredited notion.

 

[Two Thumbs]

There are many theories as to why a continent full of bloodthirsty, inbred, filthy savages should emerge from the so-called 'Dark Ages' and become the dominant region of the world for a long time. Just wondering which one y'all find most compelling. It's a fascinating historical question, in any case.

Ship building.

Opened up sea trade with the whole world.


.

You skipped a few steps.

you asked for reasons, I gave you a couple.

large nations working as one v small nations killing each other, internally, b/c they are not exactly the same.

Other regions could claim the same, and yet....

failed

 

[Two Thumbs]

The success of the West is clearly based on the Renaissance with the rediscovery of scientific principle instead of the dogma of the Catholic church. The mantles of Greece and Rome were brought forth to modern thinking after a 1000 year hiatus.....

That's an old, largely discredited notion.

the church gave up it's choke hold, while in the ME, a region that was advanced, fell behind due to the islamic choke hold

 

[Meathead]

The success of the West is clearly based on the Renaissance with the rediscovery of scientific principle instead of the dogma of the Catholic church. The mantles of Greece and Rome were brought forth to modern thinking after a 1000 year hiatus.....

That's an old, largely discredited notion.

That is an ignorant statement. You don't get to discredit history by coming up with new explanations 500 years on.

The flourishing of of art, science and political thinking coincided with the abatement of medieval dogma championed by the Catholic church and its faith in only that which supported its theology.

 

[Picaro]

If you look at the European "linear" way of thinking and even the English language
that evolved from Germanic roots mixed with so many other cultures,
this language has become the common standard in both science and business.

I hear and read this a lot, but at the time of the American Revolutionary Era, the main advances in science and math had been French for centuries, at least a couple of centuries anyway, and after as well, and the majority of early American science and engineering libraries were in the French language, were they not? I've visited the Harvard Library and have seen first hand at least partial proof of this fact, and have read it in historical works .

 

[Picaro]

The success of the West is clearly based on the Renaissance with the rediscovery of scientific principle instead of the dogma of the Catholic church. The mantles of Greece and Rome were brought forth to modern thinking after a 1000 year hiatus.....

That's an old, largely discredited notion.

That is an ignorant statement. You don't get to discredit history by coming up with new explanations 500 years on.

The flourishing of of art, science and political thinking coincided with the abatement of medieval dogma championed by the Catholic church and its faith in only that which supported its theology.

This belief has been long ago dismissed as largely incorrect, and based on old 17th century Protestant propaganda compounded by 19th century 'rationalists' who themselves were ignorant and merely trying to peddle Darwinism as a new social paradigm and social ideology. One example of the intellectual dishonesty is the myth that Christianity taught that the Earth was flat and similar falsehoods:

Myth of the flat Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Catholic Church's scholars had also been big fans of Greek philosophy for centuries, so it's also a lie they 'held back' much of anything. One only needs to read teaching texts for Catholics like Aquina's Summa Theologica for proof they did indeed accept reason and much of science as valid, as well as mathematics and logic.