  When the great early civilizations along the rivers of China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt were flourishing, Europe had only Minoan Crete and Mycenean mainland Greece as civilized urban places.   -The Hittite Empire was also European so can add it to you‘re list of “civilized“ urban places. They where as advanced has anything in China, India, Mesopotamia, or Egypt; In fact they where Egypt’s main adversary for quite some time, Ramses the II fought against them and signed the first recorded peace treaty in history.        Around 500BC Europe had only Classic Greece, Greek Southern Italy, Etrurian Central Italy and some phoenician colonies in Spain as civilized places, while the Near/Middle East and Northern Africa, China and India were deeply urbanized and had been for thousands years.     This is hystory: people can believe that whites were always masters of the planet like they are today (how long?) but it is delusion.   -Near/Middle East, North Africa and India where all conquered (repeatedly) by White people in Ancient times a lack of urbanization did not stop that now did it?        When Europe was falling into the dark ages, China was prospering.   -Byzantine and Sassanid Persia where both prospering, the largest city in the world at the time was in Europe not China, Constantinople had between 500,000 - 1,000,000+ at its height.