- 18 Mar, 2021
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Were Western Europeans just smarter? Luckier? What?
which historians generally regard as the beginning of the modern era. Western Europe, in 1500, is in many respects a backwater, certainly compared with China or India. What you have noticed about Western Europe or the rest of Eurasia which may explain why Western Europe, over the next three centuries, becomes the dominant global power economically and militarily. Were Western Europeans just smarter? Luckier? What?