shahreevar
Prince
Thangorodrim said:Culturally inferior, eh? What happened to the 4500 years of Chinese civilization? What happened to their inventing paper, the printing press, etc. before the West? Granted, Civ is a product of the West (which probably makes your argument that much stronger ) Hieroglyphs? Eastern import! Cuneiform? Same goes.
The fact is, West and East started on an even footing.
Then the East got way ahead, about around the invention of paper.
Around the invention of the printing press (in Europe, 400 years after the Chinese invented it), Europe started to catch up and get way ahead about the Industrial Revolution.
Now the East is slowly catching up.
See a pattern?
it's a circle. what goes up must come down. no empire on earth, no matter how powerful, has lasted forever. really "we are better that you" arguement only works if you are 6 years old, and comparing toys.