Why Europe?

People forgewt that China not Britain or France was still the most powerful country in the world in 1800. It was the Industrial Revolution that occured that fired Britain and eventually the rest of Europe to power. So you could restate the question as what were the origins of the Industrial Revolution.

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In the end of Medieval ages,Europe was so poor against the Muslims;Constantinople was captured,North Africa,Meditterenean and Middle East(Sacred Lands) were at the hands of Muslims.

Christians must have found a new way.They found;Renaissance,Reform,discoveries of America,India and South Africa made them wealthier and wealthier.

At that moment,Islamic world didn't know anything about these,they had to struggle against rebellations in their lands.

These are the best-known things,there are really 50 billion reasons for Europe's dominance.

I've heard the Greeks invented basic algebra actually.

Prior to the 15th century Europe was not a major power in the world. In fact they were generally more backward than asia and the middle east. The crusades did manage to enlighten them somewhat by providing knowledge in mathematics taken from the arabs that helped them in navigation and construction. What Europe did have was a love of violence and war coupled with a strong conviction that their religion was the only one and all others were beneath them to the point that followers of these religions did not deserve to live.

With the discovery of the new world and Africa Europe was able to create enough wealth that even the more civilized areas of the world were not able to stop them. The idea of putting most of your resources into perfecting the art of war was not something that most other nations considered and this made it impossible for them to stop the destructive force that Europe presented. In addition the total disregard for the peoples in these nations and the willingness to rape the natural resources of these areas with no regard for local culture helped.

The US used a similar blueprint in the 19th century with its treatment of the native indians in the west.

those advanced european ships were total crap compared to what the Chinese had at the time, and people like Columbus were using Indian math, Chinese rudders, and also gunpoweder from Asia.

The west was so succesful for the reasons Zheng He sisnt want to voyage there, he said all they had to offer the world was wine and sheep, and he was right, so the west had to expand to take part in the global economy, they were playing catch up and they ended eventually surpassing the competition.

Yeah right, like if the slavs, scandiavians, germans, finns, celts and other european ethnies tried to dominate the world before the modern era? Greece and Rome didn't represent an entire continent

No? So what about the mongols then? The Chinese in turn have shown examples of imperialism, like during the Tang dynasty when they rules an empire all the way to Transoxiania

Everything has its reasons 

the main thing is that many ( i wont say everybody) i will say many been on the top of the world by power

some took 100s of years some took less

the east had it time before and these years are the western time

history repeats it self

i dont think Europe or the US will keep dominating the world as much as they did in the past

it will be the east soon  again in controle

china is already getting up ( watch out )

the middel east is getting  a new generation of well educated poeple and western Universities are giving them the jump (35 world wide Universities are being built in Dubai it self)  Dubai population is about 1 million.

in the Emirates we have already 15 working Universities.

India already have the largest Computer engineers.

Education is very very important for future power and developments

life standered in some middel eastern countries are getting as it is in Europe and the US ( may be better )

nothing stays the same 

it happened 500 years ago and it will happen soon but we will exchange places this time