Why is Western civilization so dominant today?

A couple of centuries in the 200,000 years of human existence is not that big of a deal, honestly.

>>72185015
That might be why he said
>today

>>72184977
Easily digestable culture, encouragement of base human instincts. It's not hard when the rules are pretty flexible/vague

the only reason any civilization has ever been dominant: military superiority

>>72185015
yes it is you retard. these past few centuries has seen mankind achieve far mroe than any other point in history

>>72185399
isn't that true of all past few centuries

>>72184977
why is western civilisatrion portrayed as having it's centre in iraq?
why are MENA, central Asia and Africa under western civilisation
is this based religion or something

>>72185399
I mean just comparing the length of time,in terms of human achievements there no doubt these past centuries have been important

>>72185423
I'm not OP but I think it's coming from
Mesopotamian, Indus, and Yellow River.

>>72185399
And in the future achievements are going to be even bigger. If those achievements are still going to come from Europe/America is yet to be seen.

>>72185423

gray areas mean mixed with local tribes.

>why is western civilisatrion portrayed as having it's centre in iraq?

Because Western civilization originates in Mesopotamia

>why are MENA, central Asia and Africa under western civilisation

because Western Civilization originated in MENA

Sub saharan Africa is definitely Western nowadays.

>Middle Eastern Religion
>Indo European languages as lingua franca
>European architecure, art, etc

since africa had not civilization the vaccum was replaced with western ones

>>72185415
Read the book Sapiens. It really isn't

>>72184977
Are Iraq, Pakistan and China the early bastions of civilizations?

>>72184977
>Why is Western civilization so dominant today?
because western civilization was where the first technologies to create global transportation, foreign settlements, military dominance and global trade came from
these four factors were 99% of the reason that western values and culture were spread to every inhabited continent in the world from the 15th to 19th century
this dominance of academic and scientific institutions in the world allowed to the west to further develop technologies and ideas that cemented western civilization in modern day