How did the West surpass India/China so quickly

[Pikacel]

Western civilisation only really kicked off around like 1300-1400s then completely surpassed the two oldest continuous civilisations within a few centuries

How? All they did was absorb Chinese (compass, paper, gunpowder, movable print), Islamic (banking, caravel, astrolabe, optics, surgical advancements, clocks) and Indian (spinning wheel, rockets) inventions then they exploded, improved on all of those, industrialised, colonised most of occupied global landmass, developed modern technology/science etc

It’s crazy Ngl

 

[retributor]

I read this comment under a video and saved it. I thought it was quite interesting.

It was the age of exploration combined with high competition that enabled constant innovation and soft eugenics on Europeans. Western Europeans benefitted the most from the age of exploration because most trade value from the Americas and later Africa went there. They had the geography to dominate global maritime trade.

 

[Hoodpreet]

It depends on what you consider "Western civilization." Rome was in Italy, which is Western Europe

 

[poorenglishcel]

They got technology from aliens n shiet to crush the curry civilization because aliens knew if they didn't collaborated with the crackas and surpassed the curries, the curries would take over the whole galaxy.

 

[Hoodpreet]

banking

Not invented by MENAs.

caravel

Not invented by MENAs. The design was inspired by Arab fishing boats though, yes.

astrolabe

Invented by the Greeks, was improved upon by MENAs.

optics

Not invented by MENAs but was improved upon by them.

clocks

Not invented by MENAs but was improved upon by them.

It makes 0 sense to credit MENAs for "inventing" stuff that they improved upon yet also claim that whites "absorbed" MENA inventions despite also improving upon the MENA versions themselves. As for the jeetland inventions, those came from the upper castes who had a higher proportion of European-related ancestry at the time

 

[proudweeb]

chinese were always inward-looking and isolated

islam fell behind technologically and got fucked up by the mongols

india was a divided mess

plus, most of the initial western expansion was into mostly empty or backwards places like the americas, siberia, australia, africa etc. They had it on easy mode until roughly 1800s, but they were technologically far ahead by then

europe also had the right level of competition between countries. enough to push one another forward and innovate, but not so much that they destroyed one another (at least, til the world wars)

 

[Divineone]

They got technology from aliens n shiet to crush the curry civilization because aliens knew if they didn't collaborated with the crackas and surpassed the curries, the curries would take over the whole galaxy.

Lore accurate

 

[Rapemaxxer]

As for the jeetland inventions, those came from the upper castes who had a higher proportion of European-related ancestry at the time

There is no major genetic difference between ancient Vedic elites and upper caste northern Indians. If anything, certain NW frontier groups like Jats have MORE Steppe/West Asian-related input thanks to later admixtures from Sakas/Indo-Scythians/Yuezhi etc.

 

[Hoodpreet]

There is no major genetic difference between ancient Vedic elites and upper caste northern Indians. If anything, certain NW frontier groups like Jats have MORE Steppe/West Asian-related input thanks to later admixtures from Sakas/Indo-Scythians/Yuezhi etc.

Proof of the first statement? Ik about Jats etc. having a second layer of Steppe from Scythians yeah

 

[Glassness]

Lot of war we needed to keep expanding to fight each other so we became the best at war there's more then that but that's one reason