May 10, 2022 · The emergence of Europe as the world's dominant civilization is easy to explain from roughly 1492 onward: European ships were showing up all over the world, trading, conquering, and spreading Eurasian diseases, building the wealth of Europe and depleting that of the rest of the world. But, much of the non-European world entered a sort of cultural recession …

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