Again, you try to forget inconvenient facts about the Romans or Macedonians/Greeks. This is why you are so weak and pathetic.
Rome was top dog for a thousand years, yet you refuse to accept it because then your precious theory (just BS) of balance historically tilted in favor of the east would crumble.
What? Rome was top dog for thousand years? What about Han Chinese? What about Indians? What about Giant Persians, Cyrus The Great and so on?
At one point, Persian Empire ruled 44% of
entire humanity at that time! Romans were no match with Persians in terms of influence on humans at that time...So I would disagree that Romans remained top dogs for straight 1000 years...Others like Persians were definitely ahead of them for many centuries during this "thousand year" thingy...
Also, East produced more number of dominant civilizations than West did. Thats just a fact! Lets look at general history till 18th century (before industrialization era)...and write the dominant civilizations of different eras (General trend)..
West: Roman Civilization, Greek Civilization
East: Egyptian Civilization (3000 years continuous!), Persian Civilization, Arabic Civilization, Chinese Civilization, Turks (Ottomans, Indian Mughals etc)...
This is a very general list...and you can easily see that more number of dominant civilizations arose from East than West..
And remember, this is when I haven't mentioned Sumerians, Assyrians, Ancient Indians and their achievements etc...All of whom were dominant civilizations of their era and were from East..
Not to mention... First drawings, first writing systems, first cities, first planned cities, first civilizations etc etc all come from East...
All this bullsh!ttery of civilization, when civilization
itself rose in East!
Oh btw, the part where it says Mughal Empire had 4 times gdp of the Romans? You made this up?
Because in the source it doesn't say so:
Mughal Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taken froim the source: Richards, John F. (March 18, 1993). Johnson, Gordon; Bayly, C. A., eds. The Mughal Empire. The New Cambridge history of India: 1.5. I. The Mughals and their Contemporaries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sources put Roman GDP at $25 billion..so I based it of at that...well, others put it higher estimate? O.K.
But I wonder why there are so many estimates? There must be higher estimates for Mughals too, then. Well, Romans are research wayyyyyyyy more than Mughals..since Europeans are interested more in Romans. I hope indians research more in Mughals..but then again, indians hate Mughals themselves
While the latest estimates for Rome range in the 40. bill$ category.
So congrats, after a millenia an eastern empire reached roughly twice the size of the Roman empire with twice the estimated population.
Well, you are using latest estimates of GDP but why not use latest estimates of population too then? Latest estimates put Roman population at over 100 million at their peak....Again, Mughals were much more wealthy...
PS, I didn't even talk about "Eastern Empire"...I just showed you that how even a not-top-of-the-list Islamic Empire was so vast, powerful, and much more wealthy than your bragged romans...
There were much, much more richer, powerful, vast Eastern Empires than Romans..but why take their name when even Mughals can do the job for Romans? lol..
I already showed you how Arabs, Ummayad-Abbasid, dwarfed Romans in size, trade, and influence...and remain dominant culture of planet for 500 years!!
Heck! even one unknown Islamic empire, Afsharid Empire based in Persia, had a GDP of $119 bn in mid-18th century...and this was 1/4 of total human GDP at that time...and remember, this empire wasn't industrialize...Anyways, it lasted for around the same time as Soviets lol...
Chinese Qing Dynasty, at its peak, controlled 33% of total global GDP...massively wealthier than Romans or any other ancient, medieval Western power..I guess only U.S after worldwarII was in similar league..but again, Qing dynasty existed in non-industrialized era too.
I congratulate you but tell me with a straight face how superior this is? LOL! In the grand scheme of things it's rather insignificant considering this feat was achieved on the eve of industrial revolution.
What do you mean superior? You were bragging about wealth of Romans..I just compared wealth of Romans to Mughals..not other aspects. For that, compare Abbasids with Romans...and read about Abbasids that I've written in my last post..you'll get some idea...Abbasids were right up there with Rome in many categories..and even surpassed them in others (which lacked in some too)..over-all, Abbasid Empire was Roman Empire of Middle-East...and its influence on history is immense too..
Also, "on of the eve of industrialization" is not the best argument here. Mughal Empire existed in pre-industrial era..and it reached its peak BEFORE industrialization happened even in
England, forget about its benefits reaching Arabia, let alone India...lol...
Mughals built larger cities than London (of that time) in open deserts from ground up! Their engineers were able to provide water to whole cities situated in middle of no where! ...Their architecture still is a symbol in the world..Taj Mahal for example is one...All of this centuries before Europe was even poised for industrialization...So please, throw this industrialization argument out. It doesn't work.