[Cronos]

European culture civilized this entire planet or at least tried.

That's an incorrect statement. European culture is derived from older cultures in the western half of Asia and north africa. Even the Greeks borrowed from the Egyptians and Persians. Europe was still a backwater in the 1700s. It did a lot of great things and did give the world a great culture, but it did NOT civilise the planet. That was done by the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Greek, Roman cultures from which Europe took knowledge and enhanced.

Maybe you're right when you mention South and West Africa, but in the rest of Eurasia that sentence is wrong.

[wardaddy]

European culture is derived from older cultures in the western half of Asia and north africa

Oh lord Cronos...are you an Afrocentrist? I had no idea...now I understand the little Jew-jab. You are an anti-Euro. Are you black?....I'm white obviously.

Europe was still a backwater in the 1700s.

Really...ROTFLMAO...did you miss Colombus, The Spanish Armada, Drake, Magellan and the colonization of the New World and Asia. Who did that? Please....Lord son.

[iconoclast]

Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Persian, Indian, Chinese, civilized the planet.

Damn shame they all developed amnesia.