Question about the Europeans?

Question: Question about the Europeans!?

In Paul Kennedy's book, "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers," he makes the case that in the year 1500, Europe, the Ottoman Turks, the Chinese and the Mughals in India were all highly sophisticated civilizations, but over the next few hundred years, the Europeans rose to world prominence by making large portions of the world into colonies!. What enabled the Europeans to do so!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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renaissance, expansion of thought in sciences, arts, philosophy etc!.!.!.

Education, establishment of universities to accumulate, and share and develop knowledge

technological advances in weaponry (inventions and innovations, such as cross bows, guns, trebouchet, etc),

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greater supply and demand for tradeWww@QuestionHome@Com

They say that one of the reasons that Europe rose to become the dominant power was that it learned how to control it's population growth to a point to where it could take care of it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Excessive greed!?Www@QuestionHome@Com