Yesterday I saw such a topic on a certain hu, and someone asked Chinese is also very smart, why has there not been modern science in China? One of the answers I found very interesting, it was called

Yesterday I saw such a topic on a certain hu, and someone asked Chinese is also very smart, why has there not been modern science in China? One of the answers I find very interesting is the standard answer of the Western way

Realistically speaking, if it had been before, I might have really agreed with this statement, after all, under the premise that the West has flourished for 500 years, many things we will take for granted that what the West says is right.

However, over the years, as I read some Western history, I found that it was not so simple

First of all, we can divide the civilizations of the East and the West into three stages

The first stage, the East, represented by the Han Dynasty and the West by Rome, each reached its first peak, and then declined successively.

Stage 2 The East began to enter the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the West began to enter the Middle Ages, the East and west began to diverge here, although we have experienced hundreds of years of chaos, but from the Sui Dynasty, once again into the great unification, after a thousand years ahead of the West, and the West after experiencing Rome, the millennium has been in decline, even a word of retrogression is not too much.

Stage 3 Represented by the Renaissance, science began to appear in the West, but until 1750, the West was only ahead of the East in terms of intellectual breadth, and it was still far inferior to the East in terms of wealth, productivity, and energy utilization, and it was the emergence of the Industrial Revolution that really made the West complete the transition, through the production of large machines, the output of commodities, for the first time greater than the total population, at this time it can be said that the West began to catch up with or surpass the East in material terms.

After saying this, I almost understand that the West has really taken the lead, that is, the 500 years since the birth of science, but the question is, is it really autocracy that made science not give birth to the East?

Russia also knows that for a long time, there were no famous scientists in history, and there were really still world-class figures, but a relatively tight Soviet Union. The most well-known is that satellites preceded the United States.

The United States, now a nation known as a beacon, a country known for its freedom, had been obscure for the first 100 years of its founding, with hardly any great scientist, not a single great invention? Why didn't the soil of freedom blossom and bear fruit at this time?

Just these two days to write an article on this matter, to do some breadth breakthroughs!