>>14408908It's a typical dumb third worldist take using sparse evidence of knowledge for something that Europeans also had (often independently or earlier) to try and steal Western achievements. The early European guns were shit, it killed the Arquebusier more often than the enemy. The achievement is not discovering combustion and putting it in a pipe (grenades, again, was something that Greeks actually discovered and used first which only later spread to China), it's the advanced rifles and cannons themselves relying on a deep understanding of the underlying mechanisms.
China has never contributed anything to the world other than lying about the source of their spice and draining European wealth through trade.
Fundamentally Europe has always been the centre of the intellectual world and knowledge diffused from, but not to it. People make the mistake of assigning old Hellenic and Roman colonies to modern geography. Europe being the centre only changed with the rise of America and before the universities of Rome and the schools of the Greeks the Sumerians were the centre, but they are all dead now. Everything else is dumb anecdotal case studies from low IQ people who don't understand what modern fields actually are, nevermind the true history of those fields based on facts and not their modern weak emulation of 18th style European nationalism and racism.
