China was too centralized
India had the Caste System
The Persians and ottomans stagnated under Islam
Russia was always a feudla undeveloped waste
Europe, alternatively, led the world in invention and development. But only after they ditched christianity with the enlightenment.
Europe was leading the world centuries before the enlightenment.
because of the 30 years war and end of Christendom
According to that criteria Soviet Russia should have won the Cold War.
No. The Enlightenment was what allowed Europe to finally edge ahead of the declining East.
Because of Spain and Portugal taking over a continent and establishing trading post all over the world. This was followed by the UK, the Netherlands and France. By then we still hadn't reached the enlightenment.
nonsense, both centralized and stagnated
conveniently not asking why Europe chose to invest in seapower
It certainly had nothing to do with the enlightenment and had everything to do with peculiar geopolitical and social changes going on at that time. Including the Ottoman Empire dominating ancient land routes to Asia.
But the Enlightenment also created the modern centralized, bureaucratic state.
Many traditional states have been very descentralized, such as the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Europe.