I suppose I should say Anglo-Saxon Europe instead of England, though when of comes to the people behind the empire we’re still talking about one and the same. It’s been 40 people ruining it for everyone else for ages now.
I don’t see how this is at all dismissive of your examples though. The Aztec practivced eugenics on a continental scale before Europe even knew the Americas existed. The Mongol empire was second only to the british in land and beat them out by 8% of the global population at their height. That’s not even touching on all the countless cultures that died at the hand of their neighbor.
None of those things quite come close to the impact that Europeans have had on the world. We’re not having this conversation in the Manchu of the Qing dynasty, Olmec, or Mongolian. Our grocery stores are not offering maze or horse as staple foods. If you go to a tailor for a traditional formal dress, you will not recieve a rubakha of Russian lineage.
I’m not saying that any of them didn’t matter, I’m saying that my state of Kansas bases it’s identity off of wheat, a plant not native to this content. The people from which the name was taken exist as generic echos. The land on which my house sits was once a marsh before it was terraformed by settlers for crop. The entire Aztec empire was 85,000 sq miles to Kansas’s 82,300 sq miles and European’s didn’t just do Kansas. That’s simply not an equitable scale. Europe specced hard to violence and power and everyone now lives with the result of that.
I suppose I should say Anglo-Saxon Europe instead of England, though when of comes to the people behind the empire we’re still talking about one and the same. It’s been 40 people ruining it for everyone else for ages now.
I don’t see how this is at all dismissive of your examples though. The Aztec practivced eugenics on a continental scale before Europe even knew the Americas existed. The Mongol empire was second only to the british in land and beat them out by 8% of the global population at their height. That’s not even touching on all the countless cultures that died at the hand of their neighbor.
None of those things quite come close to the impact that Europeans have had on the world. We’re not having this conversation in the Manchu of the Qing dynasty, Olmec, or Mongolian. Our grocery stores are not offering maze or horse as staple foods. If you go to a tailor for a traditional formal dress, you will not recieve a rubakha of Russian lineage.
I’m not saying that any of them didn’t matter, I’m saying that my state of Kansas bases it’s identity off of wheat, a plant not native to this content. The people from which the name was taken exist as generic echos. The land on which my house sits was once a marsh before it was terraformed by settlers for crop. The entire Aztec empire was 85,000 sq miles to Kansas’s 82,300 sq miles and European’s didn’t just do Kansas. That’s simply not an equitable scale. Europe specced hard to violence and power and everyone now lives with the result of that.