Europe had the same location for the 18 centuries when it had a smaller economy. The difference was economic freedom. We dominated the world when we were capitalist Republics, and we’ve begun to fall now that we are socialist democracies.
“Europe had the same location for the 18 centuries when it had a smaller economy. The difference was economic freedom. We dominated the world when we were capitalist Republics, and we’ve begun to fall now that we are socialist democracies.”
I tend to believe it was more due to geographical luck. It was pure chance that Western Europe was the first region on earth to industrialize simply because at least 3 other regions(all in Eurasia) also were at the cusp of the industrial revolution at around the same time only to have it be destroyed by external conditions.