Recent content by Hyrum Higgins

Actually,the Chinese did discover the new world. There are Chinese maps dating before Columbus that show every continent.

What's wrong with everyone? The backwardness of most countries is barely linked to Europe at all. It could be said that the thing that set the middle east back the most was the Mongol invasion, which killed almost 9/10th of the population in some areas. China was advanced far before Europe, and...