Re:How did Europe become the richest part of the world?
by UncleMeat on Friday February 17, 2017 @07:02PM
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Its the wrong question, which is why you don't tend to find a lot of respected historians writing books that seek to answer this question. A lot of assumptions are baked into this question that historians do not think are valid.
The sort of "why the west won" pop history makes experts cringe in the same way that articles on AI hysteria might make experts here cringe.
The sort of "why the west won" pop history makes experts cringe in the same way that articles on AI hysteria might make experts here cringe.