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Post by gameboy on Jan 28, 2020 23:20:38 GMT
Do they also explain why Europeans are superior to every other people on earth? I'm saying this in terms of technological advancement and the fact that no other people on the globe discovered how to make an electric light or send signals through the air which could be broadcast on a television? Do they explain why no other people on Earth but the Europeans developed such a wide range of philosophy, everything from Neoplatonism to existentialism? Do they explain why white Europeans conquered the world? Jarod Diamond tries to answer this in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel The article says the Chinese had some sort of gun as well. The difference is Chinese civilization was incapable of true innovation and technology. They discovered firecrackers but never figured out how to make a bomb. They discovered gear technology but used it to build a mechanical canary for their emperor. They took it no further than that while the Europeans used gear technology to make watches. Some historians say it was the Greek idea of the individual over the state which propelled Europeans to such brilliance. It's not just guns, the West invented everything from the electric light bulb to the computer.
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