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     Filmlover Censor Bewarse Username: Filmlover Post Number: 2112 Registered: 01-2013 Posted From: 49.238.61.31 Rating: N/A |
Before 1492, China was the most advanced nation in the world and Europe was not the most advanced. Europe developed faster than rest because: 1) Europe borrowed many Eastern inventions from the Middle East and China (the wheel, chariots, guns, gunpowder, crossbows, magnetic compass, writing, agriculture, cities, castles/forts, body armor, catapults, printing press, money, etc) 2) ONLY AFTER 1492 did Europe start to get rich: - African slave trade - Aztec gold and silver - Inca gold and silver - American Indian lands used for crops to export to Europe 3) Europe was geographically closer to the "Weserlies" and "Easterlies" trade winds that could carry ships to North And South America. 4) Europe was NOT "environmentally superior" to the rest of the world, which had plenty of crops and even better, more nutritious foods 5) For centuries, Egyptian civilization was superior to anything in Europe. Even the ancient Greeks used to go to Egypt to study from them. 6) Europe was a "late bloomer" in world history. Europe DID NOT INVENT most of the technology before 1492 (the Middle East and China did). Only through the African slave trade and by stealing American Indians' lands did Europe "win the lottery" and get rich quick. 7) European smallpox killed many American Indians. EUROPEAN SMALLPOX WON THE BATTLES THAT EUROPEANS NEVER HAD TO FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES. 8) Europe was NOT "more competitive" than the rest fo the world. They were simply better pirates with more diseases. They simply took other peoples' inventions from the Middle East and China. ONLY THEN did Europe start to really advance. 9) Stolen Aztec and Incan gold and silver MULTIPLIED Europe's economy by 6 TIMES! Not a palanquin bearer.... |