[ SECRET POST #2931 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2931 ⌋

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Comments

Re: I know y'all are probably tired of hearing about tumblr SJWs, but I need to vent.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a huge amount of argument about the reasons why it happened that way, yeah.

One of the interesting things about it, to me, is how long it took for the European peoples to start pulling ahead, technology and power-wise, of the rest of the world. I mean, it's really quite recent in historical terms - it's not really until the 17th century that they start to pull ahead and not until the 18th and 19th centuries that they really start to develop the massive gap. For a lot of history including much of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Europe was in a lot of ways something of a backwater. It's fascinating that it was such a relatively recent and relatively quick change.

Personally I tend to think a lot of it had to do, ultimately, with random chance, and with political organization - the general decentralization of the continent, the number of defensible borders, the serious religious controversies that made it difficult to impose a specific worldview over a large group of people, the amount of competition between different states that fueled expansion and exploration and technological development, etc. And the good luck of having a lot of the potential competitors being politically weak or fractured.

Re: I know y'all are probably tired of hearing about tumblr SJWs, but I need to vent.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget a lot of easy to domesticate animals. America only having lama's did them a lot of harm.

Re: I know y'all are probably tired of hearing about tumblr SJWs, but I need to vent.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a very relevant argument when it comes to the Americas. But it still leaves the question of why Europe outraced Asia pretty well wide-open. Which I think is, in a lot of ways, more interesting, because if you look at it, for most of history, Asia had the most powerful and certainly the richest states.

Re: I know y'all are probably tired of hearing about tumblr SJWs, but I need to vent.

[othellia]

Praise the black death and its devastating effects on the feudal system.

Re: I know y'all are probably tired of hearing about tumblr SJWs, but I need to vent.

[(Anonymous)]

In very large part, certainly.

I also have to wonder how much effect the wars of religion and the manifold aspects of the Protestant Reformation had on this. Economically, intellectually, culturally, politically. In terms of the profound amount of disruption they caused across the whole of Europe. I mean, a hell of a lot of people died, and far more displaced. A lot of decentralization politically. Intellectually, a huge increase in the ability to question things and the number of different schools contending.