Lumen 22-1 European Dominance January 15, 2022 Irrelevant tid bit – I love you more today than I did yesterday: yesterday you really pissed me off. Europe has dominated the world in many ways, starting in the Middle Ages when European explorers and sailors spread out across the planet, finding “new” places. Of course, the world was not lost so you can’t accurately say that Europeans found Africa or America, but they did incorporate these places, that were previously unknown to them, into the European culture (Table 1). Europe was better than anyone else in war weapons and travel, in part because of their expertise in Columbus "discovering" America metallurgy, gun powder, ship design, and navigation as demonstrated by the invention and use of the sextant. These technological advances, an attitude committed to dominating the people living in their “discovered” lands. and the drive to make money resulted in European ex...