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    1. 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.

    2. To that extent, history would end

      The Idea that any aspect of history could end is so strange. Surly it was just wishful thinking for the future not an actual idea. Even if what he said would happen did happen every thing is so different that there would still be history to record.

    3. while much of Asia was in internal decline, European social theorists came to view the West as dynamic, forward looking, progressive, and free, and Asia as stagnating, backward, and despotic.

      How do we as historians depict history without being bias. Especially when the places we are looking at defiantly where not as advanced as other locations?

    4. Europeans first attributed their superiority to their Christian religion.

      It’s so intresting that this was for a time taught as history as truth. But over time it was learned to no be true it makes me think what are we teaching now that will be proven to be not true.