Why were white europeans able to dominate the world?

It was mainly due to a loss of interest by everyone else.

Physical landscape caused little tribes and societies to form and be under constant stress from trade to warfare. But the mountains gave them enough peaceful periods to develop.

Africa - hot desert, plains, and jungle are not that good for societies.

Asia - they were and are pretty strong.

Americas - landscape not conducive to build a large empire.

Boats. They invented big boats that could sail around the world, discover relatively primitive continents to colonize, and trade themselves rich on the other ones. Noone else could do that. Eventually it paid off by spurring a massive development in population and industry that increased their advantage.

Even now, having the best navy is very important, and everyone depends on naval trade.

Not sure if we are talking about the slave trade or africa or asia, but generally they all seem to have felt inferior to europeans. Whether it be iq or physical size or something else.

Lasting British influence includes a parliamentary democracy with a largely ceremonial monarch. Mahathir Mohamad wrote: “The British did not send a ‘governor’ to our country, but an official they called a ‘British Advisor.’ In reality, however, his ‘advise’ had to strictly followed....The British were extremely clever at this form of semi-colonial rule: they would call things by one name, but in reality do quite another thing. What we did get from them was a well-organized administration and a fairly well-developed infrastructure. What we also got, however, was a psychological burden, was the belief that only Europeans could govern our country effectively...Most Asians felt inferior to European colonizers.

In my experience living in asia they are much more timid than westerners and dont want any drama, they submit easily to avoid confrontation. I can see why they could be dominated especially with superior weaponry.

It was mainly due to PEDs. There was very little testing done in those days.

Europeans had three victories: * Crusades. * Genghis Khan was not able or maybe he didn't try to conquer Europe in its entirety. * Hannibal was not able to conquer Europe in its entirety and was eventually forced to retreat if I correctly recall his history.

Google: “Hoffman tournament model Europe”

Short answer: constant warfare between relatively equally matched nation states in Europe ensured quicker technical change in military innovation.

Because white Europeans wrote much of the history from back then.

Scientifically there are no "whites". That said the mythical 'white' country England conquered seaports mainly. Internal lands remained under indigenous control. England from pre-historic times is 3/4th Asian genes from Siberian Asians, Scandinavian Asians. From recorded time the Goths, and Huns from Mongolia, merged into the English gene pool.

The Mongols went the furthest occupying the largest land areas of Eastern Europe, Central and East Asia forcing suzerainty on the Western Europe, Greece, Rome, Gual, and Iberia. The Mongols exterminated 3/4th of the male population of Eastern Europe and Mongol soldiers replaced the genes of Eastern Europe, Germany up to the Danube, and Central Asia.

Millions of Mongol-Russian slaves were produced by Mongol, Chinese, Korean, and East Asian males together with Eastern European females, for sale at Crimea markets. Strongly influencing the genes of Western Europe, Scandinavia, Middle East, North Africa, and Northern India. Thus the Mongol genes are today an indivisible part of the entire populations and will continue through the ages as successive generations are produced in the whole of Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Central Asia.

Not sure if people will want to hear this, but Christianity is the reason. It provided a worldview that eventually allowed for free markets and stable political systems to evolve and flourish. Human rights, concern for the poor, an eternal sense of right and wrong, disdain for public and private corruption, are products of Christianity, and were necessary inputs for world-class civilizations.

Before Christianity, Western Europe and America were backwaters, populated by primitive people who had no chance to build civilizations that would last.

Fantastic question, by the way.

Good lord, give it a rest

I would much rather live in the dark ages than in pre-Christian Europe or America.

Because the Europeans were naturally cruel. Before the Europeans, the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas live peacefully amongst each other and were not used to violence and exploitation. Read some history .

Not so much “Christianity” as the rise of various “Protestant” sects that accompanied the growth and valorization of a rising middle class. I agree with posters who mention technological advancements like reliable ocean going ships, etc., but those advancements were enabled and supported by belief systems and economic innovations (e.g., banks) that allowed for the ongoing creation, distribution and accumulation of wealth through large segments of European populations at a rate faster than on other continents.

Because they were better.

Europe wasn't a "backwater", except for a short period ca. 600-1000 AD. The Roman Empire in the 1st to 3rd century was as capable (technology, military, administration etc.) or more as e.g. Imperial China in that time. Sure, after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire there were a few rough centuries. But by the time of the crusades around 1100 AD Europe could hold several Crusader states in the Levant despite obvious disadvantage in logistics. The gothic cathedrals from the 13th century onward are as technically advanced as anything in India or China or elsewhere. Same goes for painting, sculpture, music was more sophisticated in Europe already in the 1300s than anywhere else and could be written down, something only rudimentary developed elsewhere)

But as someone pointed out, the "killer app" was shipbuilding and navigation since the 15th century portuguese explored the African coast. Also steel, firearms, printing press, universities, curiosity, ruthlessness, missionary zeal...

An interesting book (that is downplaying some cultural factors but highlights interesting ones from geography and fauna of Eurasia) is "Germs, Gunpowder and Steel".

Brains and balls...

Superior IQ, motivation to conquer the world and physical strength

Read up on the Aztecs. Tons of violence