^This guy thinks they were to retarded

I mean they had the same amount of time as the rest of the world to invent stuff... and stayed at lower than Bronze Age.

In Guns, Germs and Steel it’s explained that that is due to many factors

ehhhhhhhhh

Most of them geographical

Guns Germs and steel is a good start

I think the reason most societies evolved well is because they learned to produce enough food

For the society as a whole to progress

If you have enough food, then you don’t need every individual from the tribe to go hunting or fishing or whatever

At that moment, the tribe organizes itself into a hierarchy capable of defending itself from other tribes

And you get urban-agricultural societies in which you have a town with farms surrounding it, with a farming class that produces food for the whole town

And the soldier class protecting the farmers from outside threats

When there isn’t any fertile ground or agricultural method to make plenty of food, you retain a hunter-gatherer society

Where every day people scrape for food

I think the reason the west succeeded where other people failed is complicated

but it starts with the idea of a rational logical god

and the world conforms to that concept

It’s mostly luck that we had certain individuals come up with good ideas

Like the steam engine or other stuff like that

Rational god=Rational consistent measurable universe

Or the French Revolution, where a crazy idea was put into practice

...

And through a lot of shit, made way for broad democratization in the long term

Across the globe

The french revolution was a horrible condition

Bastile day is a lie

True, but the idea of the people ruling themselves and not a godgiven monarch was an insane idea at the time

That was not what happened

People do not "rule" themselves

I think i worded it wrongly

I meant to say

The people electing officials to govern in their name

Popular sovereignty

Republicanism and aristocracy balanced makes a better society

more absolute democracy is a mob

The third estate effectively running the country

Absolute direct democracy might be a noble idea on paper but it doesnt work

Look at ancient athens

I agree

Every day they had to drag people out of their houses

The punishment for not participating was a fine