>>14363236China, Persia, and India were way better placed in terms of "getting civilization early." The real reason why western civilization excelled:
1. A politically fractured continent leads to constant competition.
2. A Catholic church which served as an international political institution, responsible for philanthropy and patronage of scholars and artists, as well as serving as arbiter for matters of international law.
3. Chinese print technology works well with alphabets, not so well with chink hieroglyphics. Efficient typesetting and printing allowed mass dissemination of written works, feeding the growth of the academic world.
4. Seventeenth century English property laws.
>>14364244Your understanding of history boils down to aesthetic considerations.
