Europe and its ensuing influence on economic, political, and cultural development throughout the globe was assisted by a host of mitigating factors, location, demographics, religion, trade, survival and conquest. To change any of these factors may have caused a shift in power and a following rise for another civilization. European domination by the nineteenth century was inevitable, driven by the forces of geographic location, trade relations, ideology and technological advancement, culminating with the drive for expansion around the globe.
Europe's rise to power inevitably begins with its land ...