The best monocausal explanation I've heard for this is Genghis Khan and successors rampaged everywhere else in Eurasia but were stopped by happenstance from wrecking western europe, so everyone else was set back while whitey chillaxed and burned witches.
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But I mean, how do we know all this good stuff didn't happen because some other cause made life better? What I like about Genghis is that there is no question of correlation or multiple causes. Bro tore shit up.
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Not in Japan tho I mean basically the problem is that big historical events are over-identified and there's no way to view a counterfactual Like, economists have no generally-accepted theory for the Industrial Revolution
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