From a materialist perspective, why did the the global north, the western global north in particular, become so powerful it could loot the rest of the world with borderline impunity? (hexbear.net)

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I've recently read"The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" and want to hear what all of you think the answer is, because I feel like the book was missing something in its thesis and I am not very sure what that is.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Don't forget advances in medicine like Euros learning quinine can treat malaria, before that they kept getting owned by diseases that they had no defence against

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

this is a popular misconception, malaria is not an african disease. it was almost everywhere, and eliminated in the first and second world in the 1950's. Quinine was also known and produced for malaria in the 17th century. the big medical advances in the understanding and treatment of the disease were contemporary to the scramble for africa, and not implemented/efficacious at the time

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