Quote: (12-03-2018 06:19 AM)Horus Wrote:
Quote: (12-03-2018 02:28 AM)Trumpian Wrote:
Europeans just get hated on for our land grabs because we did it so damn well. And yes - I am rather proud of it (a long with a multitude of other accomplishments). If we were to think of history as a football match, my team won.
That's not even remotely true, unless you believe the match began in 1492 and the final whistle was blown a few decades ago. There's a long history before the era of European world domination, in which groups from all areas of the world subjugated vast territories. And history certainly isn't over yet.
Very true. It's easy to fall into "presentism", where you look at the present state of affairs and extrapolate that across all of history. People forget that ancient Egypt (which was not a European civilization, as a basic look at Egyptian art would show you), ancient Mesopotamia, ancient India, and ancient China all had civilization for thousands of years while most of Europe was a wilderness. To be fair the Greeks were civilized since 2000 B.C.E as well (the Minoan civilization), but everything else was essentially tribal and barbaric.
People also forget that African Muslims ruled all of modern-day Spain and Portugal for over three hundred years -- longer than the U.S has existed. They maintained a presence there for four hundred years longer. The Muslim Turks colonized almost all of Eastern Europe for four centuries. The Mongol Golden Horde also ruled Russia, Ukraine, Poland (northeastern Europe) for a period of hundreds of years. Eastern Europe especially was essentially under foreign non-European domination for a very long time.
Even after 1492, China and India were each 25% of world GDP and the Turks and Persians were still a force to be reckoned with. Legitimate European domination lasted from about 1800 to now and is in the process of breaking down.
The guys saying that white dominance comes from genetic superiority would have a point if white Europeans had created, led and dominated other civilizations from the beginning. Problem is, writing, irrigation, city building, gunpowder, the compass, the wheel, iron working, bronze working, mathematics, and other foundational inventions were not invented by Europeans, which essentially proves this argument to be wishful bullshit. I have a hard time believing that genetically superior people in Iberia would get ruled by black and brown Muslims for hundreds of years and genetically superior people in Eastern Europe would get raped and enslaved by Muslims and Mongols, also for hundreds of years.
Reality is that different groups are powerful at different times. Scandinavians for example were seen as being complete savages for most of history and now have some of the best countries on the planet, it's not inconcievable that other groups will replicate this later on.