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March 28th, 2024

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Why Europe conquered the world

China invented gunpowder and the Arab world made important advancements in the field of mathematics, so why did Europe come out on top? It's a question historians have wondered about for decades. In the year 1000, as the second millennium began, Europeans were crude and incompetent, nobody's idea of promising. At that point, it was impossible…

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