Who are you talking about, Africa? The middle east? South-east Asia? Europe?<p>Well, since I&#x27;m German, let&#x27;s take the eurocentric approach. When we were walking around in furs scalping Romans, Africa was going pretty strong, wasn&#x27;t it. China was going strong. The middle east was a major power. At that point, you could feasibly say that the Germanic savages were unanimously across the world, across all human time (eg. the last 200 years), doing worse than other groups of people. We just did kinda well, hit or miss, over the last 1000 years, which across the timescales humanity has been existing, isn&#x27;t that much.<p>Other areas haven&#x27;t been as lucky. Native Americans (last 200 years), Africa (last 300 years), China (last 200 years), the Ottoman empire (last 100 years), Russia (last 100 years) but hell, Austria isn&#x27;t as hot as it was 100 years ago. But China is bouncing back, Africa is bouncing back, India is bouncing back.