You mean to tell me the glorious Empire could have tamed the european savages and we could have had a more peaceful world instead of the mess we have now?
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My jeans have a gusseted crotch.
Tapping a copy of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" on my knee, thoughtfully.
Notable how the industrial revolution spreading to the rest of the world has really leveled the playing field over the last century.
Ignoring that trash book.
One thing I read is that a major factor that drove western Europeans to be so dominant worldwide is that their North Atlantic ocean fishing vessel tradition resulted in them being faster and more capable than most other vessels in the world, initially proving superior to the typically Roman-esque rowing-focused designs of the Mediterranean.
It was the exploitation of peoples that took them as only visitors, not conquerers at they thought of themselves. As hispaniola shown us and other places too. Might makes the right was justified for them, but not for the exploited.
Edit: whenever people thought of exploiting others and enslaving them, there only comes one time to do so, when overpowering and turmoil take over, as seen in america (the continent), india, africa, etc.
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GGS is pop-sci. The author had a conclusion and worked backwards to justify it. It's not academically respected in the slightest.
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i don't even like jeans, why would i care for superior ones