Jow Forums, share your opinion about why did europeans became historically superior almost in all spheres like science, culture, technological progress, etc?
Jow Forums, share your opinion about why did europeans became historically superior almost in all spheres like science...
The colder climate forced the European to think ahead and to be smarter to survive. Not really complicated bro
Many other ethnicities were living in much more colder climatic zones but they didn't have the same success as the europeans did
Like who? Asians, who have on average 5 higher IQ points than Europeans? It would only prove my point further
It's true. Africans don't need to think ahead for anything, they can just pick fruit off trees and survive just fine. It's a big factor
>almost in all spheres like science, culture, technological progress, etc?
I can't really see the distinction between science and technological progress. Most other metrics of progress are secundary to scientific/technological progress, people only have time to develop artistic talent etc. if they're don't have to toil on the fields all day.
In terms of material conditions, Europe had the benefit of being able to import agriculture and productive crops from the fertile crescent (most of our staple crops like wheat and barley came from there), Africa and the americas don't really have such productive crops and they could only import productive crops if they A) had contact with the fertile crescent and B) their climate permits growth of said crops. Europe also has a bunch of easily navigateable rivers and reasonable hospitable climate, as opposed to africa where rain is largely unpredictable and large parts of asia.
The relative ease of trade with a larger eurasian trade network is also a factor which sub saharan africa missed out on. Technology begets technology and if you have a larger landmass of people to innovate with, you will come a lot farther.
Africans aren't particularly known for surviving lmao
like eskimos, native americans, central asians etc.
Nordic genes.
Well, actually nords have little to do with the birth of civilization.
>Sumerians
>Macedonians
>Romans
>have little to do with the birth of civilization
Yeah ok buddy
Lmao, they weren't nordic, Ragnar
The European superiority only started with the Renaissance , Europe had no place in history before that
>what is the roman empire
If that was the only reason, Russians and Eskimos would rule the planet.
>what is greece
...
Lots of peninsulas which favors development of civilization, extremely good climate, westcucks became shielded even from nomadic invasions once eastern states developed which allowed for stability
All ancient civilisations had a nordic ruling class
That's not a Jow Forums topic, genatsvale.
So what about Eskimos?
ok himmler
> snowhut claiming civilization
Yeah ok
No
>still in denial
Literally every one of those civilizations were Nordic. Lombards and French too
Africnans are just dumber.
And asians seem less creative, perhaps due to their collectivist culture.
But we (the Netherlands) stands on the shoulders of giants. You can see how egyptians started a civilation, that the greeks developped it further, then the romans added something it. Then everything stagnated for a while due to turmoil. Then Italians and Spaniards and Portugese started advancing civilization again. Then Dutch people rejected the status quo and advanced society. Which quickly led to France doing the same. And then the UK. And then Europe came crashing down again and the USA took over the torch. And who knows who will be next.
Africans, stand, civilization
Ignore the typos. I'm phone posting..
Lombards was not a civilization lmao. They abandoned their savage ways in order to keep the throne or a revolt would have ensued
Christianity
We are just superior. That's why we had all the greatest empires. We conquered the whole world except for Japan. We are truly the master race.
It's temporary.
Developed European civilization counts not even a half of the Eastern one (from Egypt and Sumer to the Califate). Even Christianity known as a mark of the European civilization has nothing European on its basis.
To add. Currently our liberal and capitalist way of life has spread across the world. But before the Romans came we were basically just illiterate tribes, who liked farming, fishing, horse riding and waging war.
>no malaria
>no other dumb shit
>no grilling heat
>water n shiet
hell yez
The Netherlands used to flood every 12 hours. With every tide.
aww yess
True. Even Romans claimed to be middle easterners
Black death caused so many people to die off that the social order/way things were done had to change. Other countries either slide backwards with reactionary thought or outside forces invaded them and they weren't able to adapt
Christianity
Note that every time Germans get power European civilization gets destroyed again.
They were
>due to their collectivist culture
Hm, individualism on the other hand kills European culture. Collective always dominates over the individual. Europeans manged to keep their identity by re-creating in law what was naturally predeveloped as the way of cooperation based on the tribe's interests. Roman ius is just a continuation of the ancient civita's traditions. The word Civilization itself has the same root.
So, generally, individualism can't exist without law which was built up on the primitive tribe's collectivism.
*that, not what
*civitas'
Yep, swarthy middle easterners
True, the premise for individualism Is taking part in society nonetheless
The greatest technological advances have been made for war. Who has always been at war?
too cold
Mainly livestock.
Africans, Native Americans, Oceanians and South East Asians didn't have horses for instance. Europeans had literally access to all animals they needed. (Cows, sheep, pigs etc.)
On top of that, travelling through Europe per ship is easy because there's an enormous amount of coastline. Europe has a lot of forests and arable land. Generally, the climate is not too harsh, so instead of struggling with survival, people could invest their time in technological progress.
All this layed the foundation to the white man's conquest of the world. A head start that is incredibly hard to catch up.
China had some of these advatages as well and was ahead of Europe for quite some time, but retarded isolationanist policy gave them a huge drawback.
All the people claiming things such as genetics are wrong
The thing is that Europe has a lot of easy to settle land, but is far smaller than other continents. This drastically increased the speed of modern state building, which consists of long periods of constant wars where leading figures such as kings waged war with other kings for their precious land and defended theirs, to do that they needed the to centralize power within their position and to have the people pay taxes and fight in their armies, and to keep the people in their armies and paying taxes, they needed to give them something in return, such as protection and rights. This cycle of centralizing power and gaining prosperity to wage war and waging war to centralize power and gain prosperity repeated again and again until modern states formed, and these periods required technological progress and the states themselves provided a great basis for this technological progress. This is why civilization progressed so quickly in europe when compared to other countries. It needed to.
On the other hand, countries like africa, the americas or much of asia never had these land and resource shortages, at least not in the way that europe had them, therefor concepts like cycles of constant war, resource wars, state building etc. never really happened, or not as quickly as in europe.
Africa is better for a hunter gatherer lifestyle than Europe, but much much much worse for settled life. Which is why humans evolved in East Africa, but settled in Mesopotamia.
>The Americas don't have productive crops
Where do you think potatoes and corn come from?