Why Did The West Dominate The World

Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argues that the West only dominated the world because they knew how to fight and were good at it. This is largely true and is evidenced by their influence on Eastern nations throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries all the way until 1945. The West forcefully colonized Africa following the abolition of the slave trade. Similarly, they imposed their will on China and caused social, political, and economic turmoil in their wake. Finally, in Japan, they left their imprint through the reopening of Japan to trade, as well as westernizing their society. Overall, through superior weapons, ideas, and strategies, the West drastically affected countless countries, both directly and indirectly.
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However, a force between America, France, and Britain routed Boxer forces and forced the Chinese to pay even more money. This defeat led to a frantic desire to modernize and set up substantial cultural transformations. On top of this, China was facing overpopulation coupled with a poorly led, bureaucratic government. Following the defeat of the Boxers, a revolutionary league began to attempt to overthrow the Chinese traditional monarchy. This marks the beginning of the Nationalist party in China. Despite their efforts to modernize China following inspiration from Western culture, the Nationalists failed to unite the people of China. Under influence of the Russians, another group, which would later come to be the communists, started to build up armies and support in rural China. The overall impact of the West in China amounts to bullying as the West forced China into whatever they wanted. They caused rebellions, reforms, and new government systems to try to catch up with the West. It can be said that the rise of communism in China was an outcome of the Western countries imposing their