Why were white europeans able to dominate the world?

Most of the Germanic tribes that entered the Roman empire during the fourth and fifth centuries were already Christian. The Franks and the Saxons still worshipped the Germanic gods. But the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Alans, Burgundians and Vandals were all Christian. However, they followed the Arian version of Christianity rather than the Catholic version. Arianism had been branded a heresy at the Council of Nicaea in 325 and so its followers fled the Empire and moved into the Germanic territories converting as the went.

So when these tribes arrived in the empire it created a conflict with the Catholic church in Rome. The tipping point came when the leader of the Franks, Clovis, converted to the Catholic faith. The Franks became the dominant tribe and one by one the others eventually converted from Arianism to Catholicism. The Visigoths were the last to convert in the late 500s.

Prior to his conversion Clovis was seriously considering converting to the Arian version of Christianity. Had he done so it is quite likely that the Catholic version would have disappeared from history along with the concept of the Holy Trinity.

You might want to have a wee look at how many countries the British Empire has surrendered since it’s prime 😏

Christ, they can’t even hold onto their own island at this rate 😂

Freedom for Scotland! Now that the UK has said they can't secede, William Wallace will turn over in his grave if they don't.

1. Inherently evil

2. Morally bankrupt.

High IQ?

One could argue that other groups who commit many murders are more morally bankrupt…

Some combination of culture, technology, geographic and neurobiologic factors (can't say the g-word or else the woke will throw a temper tantrum)

Could you explain neurobiologic factors? I have seen some studies on delayed gratification and wonder if that is in the ball park of what you are describing. DG may be something that was unintentionally selectively bred for because of cold climates.

then why was Europe a cess pit for so long? For most of history, Europe was lagging behind.....why did those genetic factors suddenly start kicking in only recently?

“Guns, Germs, and Steel “

This ^ is one of the better questions asked on this thread.

People have a strong recency bias. I would even call it a "now" bias. What have been the analogous question as the OP's back in 1000 AD? What will the world look like in 3000 AD - and what will be the question then? Do the supposed explanations provided on this thread really explain anything if they don't seem to answer these questions?

Because I didn't find where to post this and there are a lot of Brits in this site.

Did King John of England offer to subjugate his kingdom to Morocco’s Almohad ?

In 1213, King John of England sent a diplomatic embassy to Morocco to seal a deal with Almohad’s Sultan Mohamed Ennassir. John’s offer included converting to Islam and subjugating his kingdom to Almohads.

2024 marks the 811th anniversary of diplomatic contacts between Morocco and Britain. In 1213, King John of England dispatched the first diplomatic embassy to Morocco.
The mission is considered England's first embassy to the country, marking the beginning of diplomatic ties with the North African Kingdom. A few hundred years later, Morocco and the UK signed their first treaty, the Anglo-Moroccan treaty of 1721 for the movement of people and goods.

But the start was not smooth sailing. King John's embassy to the Almohad dynasty sultan Mohamed Ennassir was initially a distress call. King John hoped he could secure the Almohads' support in his struggle against his enemies.
In fact, England's barons vowed to remove King John from the throne, for failing to honor his agreement with them. They offered the throne instead to the son of the French king in exchange for supporting their rebellion.
The embassy of King John to the Almohad Sultan is recorded in the chronicles of Matthew Paris, a member of the English Benedictine community of St Albans and long-celebrated historian. In volume II of his Chronica Majora, Paris mentions the embassy, with an intriguing story.

Subjugating England to Morocco

According to British orientalist Edward Denison Ross, the king, in despair, even offered to convert to Islam in exchange for support from the Almohads, who controlled Spain at the time. Quoting Chronica Majora, he explains that King John sent «most secret envoys with all haste», Thomas of Herdington, Radulfus, son of Nicholas esquire and Robert of London, a cleric.
The three men announced to the Moroccan sultan, Amir al-muminin, that King John «was fully prepared to hand over himself and his Kingdom and to hold the same from him, if it pleased [Sultan Mohamed Ennassir] would become his tributary».
Moreover, the story claims that King John «would not merely relinquish the Christian faith, which he considered vain, but would adhere faithfully to the law of Mohammed».
The English embassy was granted an audience with the Sultan, and King John's letter to Amir al-muminin was translated, capturing his attention. However, the unusual offer was never accepted by Sultan Ennassir. He even lectured King John's ambassadors on «the shamefulness of religious conversion».
Paris claims that he overheard the story of the mission himself when attending Robert of London, one of the envoys sent to the Moroccan court, who was rewarded by King John for his diplomatic role.

Lost in translation ?

The story of the English embassy to the Almohads has been discredited since the Victorian era by British historians. They argue that King John's offer is rather fictitious and unbelievable.
Although some of them recognize the English embassy to Morocco, they believe that it was a simple offer for support in the face of King John's enemies, dismissing details on renouncing Christianity and ceding England to Almohads.
«Taking into account Paris' well-known animus against John and his awareness of earlier treaties between Christian monarchs and the Almohads», Paris' account is «suggestive of an authentic diplomatic mission that aimed at a 'fairly standard offer of a defensive alliance' between John and al-Nāsir as part of John's grand campaign to confront Philip Augustus», explained medieval Mediterranean historian Joel Pattison.
Quoting historian Ilan Shoval's King John's Delegation to the Almohad Court (1212), Pattison further explains that «John never intended to submit England itself to Almohad authority, but was thinking of his fiefs in Gascony and Aquitaine, whose revenues, Shoval suggests, he may have proposed to make available to the Almohads in the same way that the Almohads had done for their ally Sancho VII of Navarre (1194–1234) a decade earlier».
Although it did not lead to a deal between the Almohads and King John, the English embassy story remains one of the earliest diplomatic missions and mentions of Morocco-England relations.

Justor article

People refering to Morocco in these articles is more likely referring to North West of Africa.

I hate the exploiters of the current dynasty that use "religion" to contrôle people.

That's an old trick used by all Royal dynasties (Berber referring themselves as the descendant of the prophet Mohammed).

Good farmland producing just enough food for populations to grow and enough shelter for them to succeed, but sufficient pressure on them to seek out new lands and either dominate or learn social skills to get on with existing populations. Many new inventions. An ability to survive in cold - temperate regions. An ability to exploit their own populations in the industrial revolution and to control them sufficiently to move to cities to service those industries with cheap labour while maintaining widespread hope that conditions for them would eventually improve if they worked hard enough.