What was it about Europeans That made them so capable of dominating the world?
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germs. \n\nI saw an interesting program on Discovery about how the bubonic plague so reduced the population of Europe that poor peasants were able to acquire lots of land and wealth, thus leading to the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution. \n\nThen the germs won again by killing off the competition when Europeans came to the Americas and elsewhere. Accidental biological warfare was a tremendous advantage.\n\nThen there's the idea that Europeans were so used to killing each other that they'd already developed quite a bit of technology to use when they realized there were other people to kill, exploit, and displace.
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Most European nations were over run by the Nazis in WW2 and the French were at the front line on Hitler's plans to invade England. Some nations stayed nuetral, however Hitler was intent on not only conquering these nations, but plundering them as well.
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There weren't many domesticable breeds in America.  So, Europeans had to bring over horses, cows, sheep etc.  \nRead Guns, Germs and Steel
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its a huge question.  You can write books to fill a library.  \nIn Europe, it opened up new lands and great wealth.  In the Americas, destruction and loss of land, people, cultures, natural wealth etc. etc. etc.  In Africa, slavery like no other seen before it and more of the same as the Americas.  Asia, Colonization, stripping away of natural resources etc.  \n\nUnfortunately, sometimes one man's boon is another man's bust.
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no \nGermany was only successful in continental europe.
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The Germans, when they broke the treaty of Versailles. Hitler began taking over neighboring countries and the rest of the world thought Germany wasn't much of a threat so they didn't really pay attention to what Hitler was doing.
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good one lol,\nmaybe they tought they had some special powers
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Western Europe is as developed, if not more, than the US. If you take a look at Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland or Austria (to name a few), you will see that, even though they have a different style of living, their "modernity" is similar, if not more advanced, than that of the US. There are also South-Eastern countries who are just developing, due to having been occupied or influenced by the Communist regime. Anyway, most of them are preparing to join the European Union, which will help them reach the modern European and American standard. I believe the old continent is evolving at a very fast pace.
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If you want to read about how Asia was ruled under European Imperialism (the period of when most of Asia was under the control through colonization by Europeans) visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism_in_Asia and you will get most if not all of your answers.\n\nGood Luck!!!
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Europe was split east and west after world war 2.  Half of conquered Europe fell under the power of the Soviets, the other half went with the U.S. and Great Britain.  After about 50 years of Soviet domination, the east fell behind economically and technologically.  Most would say this is because of the restrictions on liberty and free expression, plus the inefficiencies of communism.  It's hard for a society to grow in a climate of fear.
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Because Europeans are so intelligent & colonised large parts of the world. Indians are only good for driving taxis.
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They were powerful, strong, healthy, good-looking, brave, virtuous, and above all possessed superhuman powers. They always faced adversity with courage and were able to defeat the enemy, however strong he/she was.
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They say it was after the Battle of the Golden Spurs, where France was trying to invade Flanders (now part of Belgium) and the regular folkspeople (well organized) beat the heck out of the knights in armor and the French cavalry. Soon after that firepower would be discovered and it was essential to have mobility more than armor. That was around the year 1300.
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Guess Europeans are just superior beings...\n\nHow's that for sarcasm?
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English is probably more popular than the other European languages because they were the last dominant civilization after the colonization days.  Spain had its great times for a while before the Armada.  France didn't really do much of anything.  England was the most widespread, and Americans carried over English.  In the 1800s and so on, America grew more and more powerful, so I'm guessing that's one of the reasons it's quite popular.
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Africa was not merely ruled by European authroity.\n\nEuropean authority 'invaded' africa and offered the africans education, health and food facilities in exchange for african resources (oil, cocoa, gold) and religion.\n\nEuropean religion was more or less forced on the africans to gain control over them.\n\nSlaves who were taken out of africa had their indigenous tradutional religions taken from and many were baptised  into the european religion (christianity) forcibly.\n\nOf course, when these africans and slaves were made to go the churches, instead of seeing the christian saints and gods, they saw their own traditional gods.  This is how voodoun evolved and grew.  Even now voodoun devotees will pray to christian saints along with their own voodoun gods.\n\n\nYes, a lot of africans got converted and became deeply religious.  But we now have a lot of africans (and even non-africans) returning back to the old religions of africa - ifa, orisha, voodoun, candomble and others
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because europe has the best teams