>>9975941Truth be told, Europe started rising above others during the Renaissance, which was the reintroduction of classical thinking in Europe, which sparked a wave of innovation, philosophy, arts and the pursuit of sciences that brought us to the enlightenment and the modern era.
Prior to that we had a milennia of christianity in which we were pretty much stagnant or even at the mercy of foreign powers (mongols, islamic empires, pirates, etc.)
