User blog comment:Nkbeeching/Eurasian Supremacy based on Geographic Luck?/@comment-4780584-20120902001410

it also states how those cultures more reseptive to advances survived and those who didnt simply got left behind, for instance because japan in 1600 under the tokugawa returned to isolation because of tradition it returned to its previous way of life. or because chinese eunuches decided to cut off the chinese navy navy during the ming period they got left behind, the only reason they survived in this way was because they were mainly isolated from the rest of the world, while europe was divided and any state that tried to push away advance was simply trampeled by the other states.