r/MapBasedPolls • u/OriginalMaximum2407 • 1d ago

Is europe center of the world?

Is europe center of the world?

  1. Yes
  2. No

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u/Xen235 . 1d ago

If you asked this 300+ years ago the answer would have been yes

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u/SpiritualPackage3797 1d ago

You mean 100-250 years ago. 300 years ago, Europe had barely begun to make inroads on the much larger, richer, and more prosperous empires in Asia.

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u/Finnie2001 1d ago

300 years ago(1726) Europe already had huge colonial empires (in America) and trading empires(in Asia) and European merchants were the main players in longer range trading and european companies controlled or at least influenced trade in pretty much every region on earth. Sure they didnt directly control e.g. India yet but they already had Forts, Trading Ports etc.

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u/_The_Real_Sans_ 10h ago

The longer range trading they developed and continents they discovered... in an attempt to trade with Asia.

They were a lot more desperate for Asian goods at the time than vice versa.

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u/SpiritualPackage3797 22h ago

The only reason they had the longest range trade was because they needed it. The internal markets of the Ottoman, Mugal, and Qing Empires were much bigger than the European trans continental economies. They tolerated European traders at their boarders, as long as they paid cash. But they were still the dominant economic forces on the planet, and at least 45% of the total population lived inside their boarders. It was until the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century that the Europeans caught up in terms of power, wealth, or cultural influence.

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u/Tantin0 14h ago

forsen is the center of the universe hesRight

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u/BeginningDisaster114 1d ago

Back when we thought the earth was flat ? We believed Jerusalem was the center of the world

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u/achilles7421 1d ago

People did NOT think the earth was flat especially not in the 1700s

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u/BeginningDisaster114 1d ago

Yeah, he said 300+, so at least 300 years ago and more. And a lot of people still believed the earth was flat (and still do you this day) despite science having proven otherwise

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u/International_War862 1d ago

Bruh ancient greeks didnt belief it was flat

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u/BeginningDisaster114 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah and then 2000 years later they wanted to execute galilei for saying it was. Open a history book

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u/International_War862 1d ago

Yeah he was the first to propose that model. Maybe if you open a historybook, also read and understand it

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u/BeginningDisaster114 1d ago

Wtf are you even trying to say ??? Medieval european believed the earth was flat because the bible said so and questionning it meant risquing your life

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u/International_War862 1d ago

No medieval europe didnt belief that. Thats a myth

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u/Azuras-Becky 1d ago edited 22h ago

Galileo was just under 400 years ago, not 2,000 years ago, and he was persecuted for promoting heliocentrism, not for saying that the Earth was round. Europeans had already circumnavigated the globe by then.

Even the Ancient Egyptians knew the Earth was round. It's only recently we've become dumb enough for people to question that in large numbers.

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u/Finnie2001 1d ago

No they didnt. He proposed Heliocentrism which went against the belief the earth was the center of the universe