[Bullet Magnet]

Our school history classes are horrendously whitewashed. How many of you have heard of the various powerful African empires of history? How many of us know anything at all about pre-colonial Africa besides ancient Egypt? Even African immigrants (and descendants of those immigrants) in Europe didn't do too badly in the centuries before colonialism. For starters, they were wealthy enough to charter a course there.

The west's modern domination is only a few centuries old (and likely coming to an end, but that's a different topic). For most of our history, with the exception in some cases of Greece and Rome's brief ascendancies, the nations in the middle east, far east, Africa, and Central and South America, were much more powerful and more advanced than Europe.

The two differences you claim are absolutely not differences at all.