One critic has said that the idea that “the West has some unique historical advantage, some special quality of race or culture or environment or mind or spirit, which gave this human community a permanent superiority over all other communities”
Eurocentrism is such an easy answer to such an interesting question. Looking past the blatant racism it takes a really interesting question. Like how did Europe advance so fast while the rest of the world lagged behind and turns it into something boring. It is our place as historians depict historians to dig as far into history and events and seeing every aspect of the past.