Why Did Europeans Come to Dominate the World?

Three different theories:

Thought Monkey (7 Minutes): “Three hundred years ago something big happened. The Western world began to look at the world with new scientific eyes. There was a problem with this, though. As scientists began to classify the world into different categories, they also began to divide the human species into sub-species. Because of this, an authoritative justification of slavery and colonialism happened. People have suffered because of this for over three hundred years. And while many people back in the day argue that the dominance of Europeans was because its race was “superior” to those of Africa, China, Americans, etc. The truth is that their power really came from luck.”

Reasons Why Europeans Dominated the World, by Richard Elfers

“Most of you have never heard of Zheng He. Between 1405 and 1433, this Chinese admiral of the Ming Dynasty led seven major explorations into the western reaches of the Indian Ocean. The largest of these explorations included almost 300 ships and carried close to 30,000 people.

“Europeans came to dominate the world beginning in the late 15th century, according to Harari, because they held a different perspective from the rest of the world. When the Europeans began to explore, they knew they were ignorant of

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