What the title says. India and china alone have almost 3 billion. Asia has over half the worlds population. Why has this historically been the case even though many Asian countries developed far slower than European countries.
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The idea that “Asian Countries developed far slower than European countries” is also a bit misleading. If your frame of reference is the 19th century, then yes, Britain and France were quite a bit more technologically developed than China and India.
But if you’re looking at, say, the 7th century or 13th century, then quite the opposite was true. Europe didn’t really begin to “surpass” Asia in any meaningful technological way until the 17th century.
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