The west was economically advanced because of the Industrial Revolution. This is due to two factors stated in the lecture notes. The two factors were the creation of a capitalist economic system and an industrial mode of economic production. Capitalism helped the economy advance because it allowed free enterprise which created a greater ... feel loyal to their society. Also many of the other types of governments in non-western countries were very unstable and this caused them not to advance in the political sense because there was always a struggle to gain supremacy of one's country. The wes...

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