Question

Why did Europe come to dominate the rest of the world? What was it that made them so much better than great civilizations such as Islam, India, China, etc.?

Answer 1

In the modern colonial era, the european countries of United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany came to dominate various other countries throughout the world (mostly Asia and Africa). They had gained almost 84% of the world power by colonising.

The major reason for the established dominance was the search of food. As the European countries were industrialising, they realised that their food was not that good. Infact, it was bad. So in their conquest of discovering spices, they came to Asia. Slowly this conquest turned into the greed for more and more trade thus European nations ended up colonising some Asian countries. It managed to enter Africa through military and was driven by eonomic and political motives. Thus, European countries were able to dominate the rest of the world.

The faster and systematic growth of the European nations made them better civilisations. They became wealthy faster than other civilisations and were always looking for opportunities to expand themselves. They were more active in the trade front helping them to grow bigger. The pro-activeness was missing in other civilisations as they were satisfied how their economy was working. Hence,these things made Europe a better civilisation than others.

------------