DrRD: Race defines possibilty of autism spectrum. Autism spectrum determines innovation. Political order, elite composition, and economy, determine demand for aesthetic signaling. Technology determines potential for complexity.
In other words, it’s rather obvious why europeans invented the majority of everything in the bronze, iron, and steel ages – and everything they didn’t invent they put to more use than all the rest of the world combined.
It doesn’t always matter who is first but it matters who is evolutionarily fastest. Europeans are always fastest. And they have been disproportionately innovative.
FWIW: warm climate flood river valleys let polities form earlier. Europe had none. So centralization wasn’t possible. The absence of centralization necessitated smaller polities. Smaller polities necessitated federation and political economic and technological competition.
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