Why is it that Europe - and its peoples - have delivered the overwhelming majority of progress to human civilisation?
More geniuses and higher testosterone levels in white people.
>>73468
The real, unbiased answer - the Caucasian race developed in the Middle East and spread out into Europe, while some states in the Middle East. This racial type is known as Western Cro-Magnon. The whites that remained in the Middle East developed agriculture, the one true key to civilization. This is why all advanced cultures either came from the Middle East or had extensive contact with them. Here are some examples; Rome, Greece, Persia, Mesoptomania, Egypt, etc. etc. Even Britain owes its success to its Neolithic invaders from the Mediterranean! For the most part, whites are a mix of these Middle Eastern whites and the whites that went to Europe in the Paleolithic, preceeding the Neolithic and adoption of agriculture.
>>73468
>have delivered the overwhelming majority of progress to human civilisation
>only since the 1500's
>humans have been existing for 200,000 years
I'm gonna take a wild guess that all the mixed cultures brought out many different perspectives and ideas.
This is also why Russia and China never got shit done.
>>75145
You forgot about the indoeuropean invasion m8
>believing in historical progress
>>73468
It's not that simple, really much was made by Mesopotamians or Indians or Chinese or Mesoamericans. Generally it's because of the scientific revolution during the enlightenment along with colonialism making Europeans the most powerful group of people during the Modern Era.
>>73468
Evolutionary necessity.
Athenians were rioting every other day due to the huge discrepancy between the rich 1%ers and poor 99%ers, so for everyone to get along, one rich guy invented democracy.
>>73468
I believe that it actually has a lot to do with the shape of europe in comparison to the americas and africa. europe is mostly on a horizontal plane with long lines of longitude. In areas where longitude is the same you can grow most of the same crops as the climate will be the same. this allowed for the europeans to establish earlier trading and cultural mixing because they grew similar crops. where as in the americas the continents are mostly long shaped and have long lines of latitude. this made it very difficult to grow similar crops and thus the civilizations there rarely traded with other civilizations.
because of the color of their skin, i.e. white. take the redpill sheeple
>>75210
Indo-Europeans were racially the same as the Middle Eastern Mediterraneans, just much more depigmented. Culturally, they were much different being nomadic and warlike.
Many other cultures used to be greater then they fucked out because lack of competition (Middle East, China). Of course the reason Europe and the cultures I mentioned got great because Jared Diamond.
>>73468
They happened to be the ones to find >le American continent and actually do something about that finding.
>>73468
Advances in oceanic shipping as well as other logistical technologies combined with a unique economic and political system developed over the course of centuries.
That and much of our understanding of human progress has been lost over the ages leaving what little survived being filtered through a Neoclassical lens linking all important historical developments (the rubric for importance being whatever Europe directly inherited) to early modern Europe.
Probably mostly due to the social and governmental structures. Events like the black plague essentially destroyed feudalism, and set up the path for the industrial revolution. This in turn allowed for creative disruption by inventors and innovators, allowing for a flourish of scientific and social progress (in the poverty to middle class sense).
This is not a very comprehensive analysis, and it mostly focuses on Britain's situation (and western Europe to some extent), but that's the general gist.
>>75308
Acknowledging racial differences is not inherently racist and ignorant. I am white, but I realize when other whites are being idiotic. But at the end of the day, we need to talk about the facts even in they upset people.
>>75289
It's the best system we got so far. If your politican screws up he wont be around for the next period unlike a shithead monarch.
>>73468
Enlightenment era thought. I'd argue Europe has been making unprecedented progress since 1800s because of the belief of a teleological movement towards greater objectivity/truth.
>>75536
This.
The enlightment era really kicked western civilisation into high gear.
>>75636
Enlightenment is codeword for degeneracy thought
They didn't.
1600-1980 isn't "all of human history"
>>75167
The majority of human progress took place after 1500
>>75662
Nah, that would be the romantic era. That was a lot of decadent butthurt over science proving that everything could be explained.
Europe is an arbitrary region. The accomplishments of Europe were actually the accomplishment of three different civilizations; the Greco-Romans, the Byzantines/Orthodoxy, and the West, plus there were also accomplishments by others like the Vinča culture. You've basically just drawn a line around these civilizations and act like they were all one thing, even though they were different cultures in different regions. It makes as much sense as drawing a line around the Middle East, India, and China, calling it all 'Asia', and asking why Asians accomplished so much. It makes no sense to treat the Greeks as if they were closer to Brits than to the Middle East. True, Greco-Roman culture became the basis behind Western and Orthodox civilizations, but it was also the basis behind Islamic civilization, and it was itself based on Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations.
Basically, Europe is not one thing, and talking about European accomplishments makes as much sense as talking about Asian ones.
No Islam.
>>73468
The whites had a very good system of competition and some degree autonomy from each other while the Middle East and Asia were unified to some extent. Competition breeds strength and it allowed the Europeans take over the globe. Another thing they did was build up their territory so they could maximize its potential unlike the rest of the globe barring maybe the chinese.
>>73468
Am I the only one who finds it weird that tolerance to the level we see in modern society is an invention of the white man, yet the white man is the most maligned because of it?
>>75802
Islam existed in Europe before being driven out.
Git educated.
>>75854
>tolerance to the level we see in modern society is an invention of the white man
jews aren't white
>>75636
Read English philosopher John Gray for criticisms on Enlightenment era thought. It did kick Europe into high gear, true, but it has led to unprecedented also, like insane population growth and damaging ecosystems to the point of creating feedback loops increasing climate change and other issues.
We need another era that fixes the issues in such thought.
>>75898
typo
It has led to unprecedented problems*
>>73468
Longest coastlines -> more boats -> faster communication
Literally all
>>73468
The Mediterranean*
Fixed you white barbarian
>>75167
Have a look at the periodic table senpai
>>75898
I think it was a price worth paying.
>>75981
>I think it was a price worth paying.
We won't know until 50-100 yrs. If the oceans die and so forth and that affects us in negative ways, then maybe the anarcho-primitivists were right? We're at a point where we need to start realistically analyzing the damaging effects of modernity in post-industrial capitalist setting, and what can realistically or foreseeable be done to fix it.
My theory is comparable to this:
>why are the best scientists and schools American?
>why are the best football players from [good team]?
People who seek fortune will gather at places with momentum and prestige, whether it means something as basic as agriculture (good lands) or more advanced civilizations and culture (established kingdoms). The centres might shift because of reasons but the logic remains.
>>75854
Is tolerance code for genocide on every continent, starting two of the worst wars in human history, and plundering resources from the lands of non-whites?
Because if so, then yes, whites truly are the most tolerant.
A large population centered around a handful of great plains very close to one another, with an economy that focused on trading the production surplus of the countryside rather than a string of trade depots with an undeveloped hinterland and huge urban centers based around Roman style munificence instead of industry.
>>76099
Well yeah, we need to get shit done and make sure the planet has a functional eco system. That is just common sense. Politicians don't want to touch the subject because it will mean massive reforms and people having to change lifestyles.
>progress
You're literally an agent of the kali yuga; kill yourself
>>76256
No pain, no gain.
>>73468
They were the ones to fist industrialize, and with that the capacity to conquer the whole of the world. And when you go about conquering places to extract resources and create new bastions of trade, you can't help but impart some portions of knowledge onto your subject peoples. You construct rails to speed transport of goods and administration. You educate some of the locals so that your people no longer have to exported abroad to administer far flung regions. To improve resource yields, companies introduce superior technology such as automated looms and fertilizer. And with these extra resources a boom in the home markets improved general standards of living and promoted economic growth and new industries, leading more innovations. Europe industrialized first, and by their desire to conquer and extract, they spread their knowledge.
>>76232
>people having to change lifestyles
And this is why nothing will change unless people are threatened to.
We will basically kill the planet for unlimited economic growth and when the planet goes we will go with it.
Also scientists are expecting ecological refugees to stream into europe in the future that will pale the current refugee crisis in comparison.
tldr:we are fucked
>>76646
This is why we need to get a proper space program going. That way we can move a lot of the industries away from Earth.
>>73468
Call it racist and ban me but this is a history board and the inescapable truth is that Europeans are superior people. Driven individuals and geniuses came out of the woodworks in Europe.
>>77129
Only in the last 500 years. Before that we were mostly just jerking off a lot like everyone else.
>>75145
Nah. Why would the Middle East have any bearing on the culture of Europe? It hasn't done anything smart or useful in the last 1000 years. And all of its great accomplishments prior directly prior to that were the result of raids carried out on European cities.
There's no doubt that the Middle East had a great culture, but not enough is really known about the past to say for definite if culture spread from East to West, as you suppose or in the opposite direction, which is has precedent in the recent past and is just far more likely.
Not sure if this answer is biased or not, I am European. But then again most Europeans believe and are taught the speculative nonsense you just uttered so...
>>77576
Well, Christianity is Middle Eastern and it has had a huge effect on Europe and is still regarded as important by many.
>>73468
Bathroom hygiene is the foundation of human civilization
chinks invented toilet paper
you're welcome
>>75526
If the monarch is shit you depose him. If your democracy is shit, gg.
>>77442
Europeans have been the tippy top dog a lot longer than the past 500 years
>>73468
Capitalism. It took quite until small islands of economic freedom propelirem the continent. Then the economic stagnation of the Ottomans opened new market niches and horizons. In the end, the Great Divergence, mixing a vast productive capital with a vast scientific heritage.
>have delivered the overwhelming majority of progress to human civilisation?
Rather questionable.
>>73468
The English were not any help. They delayed Europe and the world's progress for decades.
>Europe
There's that word again.
It's not Europe, it's Western Europe. How many Belarusian or Romanian inventions can you name?
>>77988
kek Butthurt Irishmen
>>77952
Eh, Europe didn't really start to matter on a large scale until the colonies became a thing.
>>73468
The intense deliberate spite between many bitter rivals in a very small area mixed with decent tech advancement and economic incentive. Sprinkle in well placed diseases and some luck at the beginning and you've got a bunch of angry lunatics who are going to go, explore the planet and discover that they don't like it.
>>75898
Malthus pls go
>>77988
Profidious albion just needs to go home. But they sure did help.
