Why Did Europe Conquer The World

Modern times are the ultimate byproduct of the endless attempts of Europe to spread their influence across the world. Think about it, we defined our existence as a society from the primordial hotspot of Europe. That is because their ability to stretch their power to the edge of the Earth. These places were not discovered which is common misnomer because they were already inhabited by millions upon millions of people native to the area; places like America, Asia and Africa had massive cultural touchstones, governments and technology way before the Europeans stuck their nose in their lives. The Europeans may have paled in comparison to other cultures such as the Aztecs in the Dark ages but the Europeans eventually exploded onto the international …show more content…
Hoffman, who is a professor of Business Economics and History at the California Institute of Technology wrote a book titled Why Did Europe Conquer the World, and it illustrates many of these reasons and adds to the already solid evidence of the spread of smallpox to the New World, by stating, “The Europeans, however, were not the only people with this biological edge, for all the major Middle Eastern And Sian civilizations had the same advantage…The reason is simply that there were more easily domesticated plants and animals in Eurasia that in the America and fewer geographical and ecological barriers to the diffusion of crops, livestock, and agriculture. This cites the claims of Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs and Steel that has been routinely picked apart by many historians claiming that this is such scientific simplification of something spanning hundreds of years. This claim is also bolstered by the millions of views that the content creator on YouTube, CGP Grey, who created a video titled Americapox: The Missing Plague where Grey uses the texts exact claims along with some other sources to create a video that has over 2.5 million views, probably more people that had bought Diamond’s book. This prevailing misinformation is something that could go the way of many other nuggets of information that people believe to be true that are not, such the 10% of the Brain argument or even the simpler myth that George Washington had wooden teeth. This prevailing …show more content…
This collection of arms would go on to be use in the conquest of the world. Hoffman confirms the statement, “For some military historians, the answer is clear: the Europeans simply had better technology…what was the technology? It was, first and foremost, the weapons and defense spawned by a military revolution that swept through early modern Europe as gunpowder transformed warfare…” The armed armies of other Non-European countries would not stand a chance against the bullets firing upon them. Also, the evolutions of arms lead to the evolution of warfare itself with many improvements coming from the invention of guns that wouldn’t have been possible with more primal