Why did Europe evolve faster than Africa, Asia and the Americas.?

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Good point about Egyptians I was planning on adding that to my details...so here goes.

I meant in recent times (last 1000 years ago), I know they accomplished some great things but so did places like Stonehenge (Albeit not to the same scale aas the pyramids), and they may have reached that technology quickly but where did they propel them to (now a days).

Living happily is a good point, but evolving is defined as improving oneself, and while building cities may not be an improvement, medicine, democracy, and science are defiently.

But living primitvely (not in a bad way) may be fine, and a good life, however the practices stay the same, their is no evolution.

Answer 1

A provocative question...

The answer can be found in the combination of global location, indigenous food supplies (plant and animal), climate, and weather patterns. Europe had the optimum environmental conditions going for it.

The evolution of continental cultures can be traced very clearly to these factors and several others such as the spread of diseases and the ability to migrate across land masses.

For a really interesting full exploration of the this precise topic, read the book Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Answer 2

On the contrary, I think Europeans became more barbaric than people in the other continents.

Europe became densley populated. Unlike the peoples elsewhere, who migrated into other areas to solve their population problems, Europeans solved the problem by making war. Each generation learned how to kill more people than the generation before. With the age of exploration, they exported their warfare to othe continents. It is terrible to see people around the world acting so much like Europeans today.

Answer 3

Most likely the Nile and Tigris/Euphrates had something do with it (turning the scavenger hunters into agrarians), as well as the Ice Age....i don't know how, but those were sentinel events. I read somewhere that cosmic rays can change or mutate chromosones/DNA triggering evolutionary changes. I wonder if something happened to the post-Ice Age cave men that didn't happen elsewhere...just wondering.

Answer 4

That is a great question. To me, the key is Greece...that is where 'evolving' really took off. But why did 'Greece' happen in Europe as opposed to the other places, I don't know.

Answer 5

You must be kidding. Why on earth would you believe that Europe had evolved quicker even in the past millennium? During that time it was Europeans who were demolishing age old African cultures, recovering from the so-called Dark Ages (so named because Europe was in darkness, not the rest of the world), and decimating the people groups of the entire Western Hemisphere. Of course there was the renaissance, but again, it was called that because of the darkness that preceded it. The rest of the continents experienced amazing civilizations. We do not hear or know as much about them, because the old, white, European historians we grew up reading tended to have a Euro-centric understanding of the subject they wrote about.

Answer 6

Why do we assume that evolving is building cities and inventing things?

Could an arguement be made that a people could desire different things and therefor evolve in different directions. If a people are living happily who's to say they haven't evolved?

Just a thought.....

Answer 7

Egyptians.

Answer 8

MAINLY IT WAS THE DEVELOPMENT AND DISSOLUTION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, ALTHOUGH ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE GREEK EMPIRE WAS INVOLVED AS WELL. HOWEVER, THE ROMANS CREATED TRANSPORTATION AND SUPPLY LINES THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST.

Answer 9

read "guns germs and steel " by Jared diamond

Answer 10

Thanks to England, Europe became industrialized years before any other continent.