IN CIVILIZATION, FIRST DOESN’T MATTER, FAST DOES Turns out being ‘first’ was due

IN CIVILIZATION, FIRST DOESN’T MATTER, FAST DOES
Turns out being ‘first’ was due to geography and made no difference. Instead fastest regardless of geography made the difference.

The west evolved faster than all the rest combined in the Bronze, Iron, and Steel ages. And the west alone, didn’t exhaust agrarianism by 800, and begin the process of stagnation (India, China) or decline (Islam).

China should have surpassed Europe simply because rice is a better caloric crop than wheat, flood rivers better farming than temperate fields, and larger populations are more capable of production. Had china traveled to the Americas AND not had another attack from the north and northwest, they might have taken the new world. But, China is not adventurous or heroic and there is just as much chance the primitivism of the American coast was as unpleasant as the primitivism of the African coast.