They also brought civilization to places were people were still living in caves or huts , so I think Europeans good doing outweighs by far their wrong doing , Whats your opinion ?
2007-11-29 07:29:55 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Your explanation is a little bit oversimplified.
Europe got to be powerful because there were so many seperate states and kingdoms, each with their own distinct culture and language, in close proximity to one another. Competition for resources and land encouraged rapid technological development. Much faster than in regions like China and India, where nation states controlled enough territories that they weren't in need of more.
Other regions like the Americas and Africa experienced similar conditions, but failed to develop as rapidly as Europe, as they existed in tropical climates, where there was less need to develop technology to deal with temperate seasons.
Peace.
2007-11-29 07:39:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't invent everything, some of it was reinvented from previous times. We're still relearning some things the Romans knew.
They did bring civilization to various areas of the world and the advances most nations enjoy today.
I would agree that the good outweighs the bad, though there was some serious bad.
There are a lot (most of them are teachers in certain institutions) that want to only focus on the bad of what the Europeans did.
EDIT
To correct some serious errors below.
The Europeans did not create the slave trade, they just took it to a higher level. The slave trade could be traced back to ancient Egypt, or to Arabia, or to Israel, or many other places.
The Europeans actually abolished slavery before a number of other cultures. They fought to release slaves taken by Muslims in several wars.
2007-11-29 15:38:35 · answer #2 · answered by Yun 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There's a great book that was written about 10 years ago to answer this question. It is called Guns, Germs and Steel and was written by Jared Diamond. While I don't agree with all of his thoughts, it is an interesting thesis.
His basic premise is that all people are the same but something in the environment led Europe to conquer the world. His main reasons are that Europeans had the largest number of animals that can be domesticated (cows, horses, pigs, goats, sheep, etc.). The east-west axis of Europe (as opposed to Africa and the Americas) led to the sharing of agricultural production.
Read the book. It is pretty good.
2007-11-29 15:47:51 · answer #3 · answered by Downriver Dave 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) Europeans invented things bringing to further perfection other things from other people, which in their turn likely borrowed from another one. Not even the wheel was invented from scratch.
2) Greeks, Italians , the Portuguese - which can be credited with many of this stuff - can be pretty tan..
2007-11-30 05:36:14 · answer #4 · answered by mand 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Invented everything there is...
Except paper, silk, the compass, porcelain and gunpowder (China); Mathematics (Persia); and many, many more...
Silence reigns with respect to non-European predecessors of significant inventions.Thales is declared the Father of Science but the partial Asian parentage of Thales whose mother was Phoenician ( Lebanese), or Pythagoras, possibly of similar parentage, is hardly ever mentioned. The constant interaction of the Ancient Greeks with their African counterparts is ignored, even when the Greeks themselves gratefully acknowledge this interaction. I could go on....
2007-11-29 15:41:50 · answer #5 · answered by Jim 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
black and native American Indians invented a lot of things that are used today. Egypt and China were civilized long before Europe and they're not always considered "white". white Europeans just were more brutal in taking over and subjugating.
2007-11-29 15:50:10 · answer #6 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
i think you r wrong. white europeans in general have killed more people than the worlds population right now. so what if they invented a lot of stuff? if we had waited a couple more years someone else woulda invented them. they masterminded slave trade(displacing many millions of innocent africans and thereby ruining their lives); they killed themselves a whole lot; they ruined many lives in south america, north america, asia, everywhere!!!! im guessing u didnt really think before you posed this silly question.
2007-11-29 15:40:14 · answer #7 · answered by cannon_primed 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
What's my opinion? My opinion is that you're an ignorant racist who needs to learn a lot more about human history.
2007-11-29 16:04:19 · answer #8 · answered by classmate 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Ur dumb whites weren't succesful they dealt with racism
2014-06-27 13:59:55 · answer #9 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
greed; gold or prominence.
2007-11-29 15:38:05 · answer #10 · answered by santos 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋