Oddbean new post about login | logout A race of people didn't do all this; American titans of capitalism did.
Renaissance, Protestant reformation, representative government, modern agriculture, industrial revolution, harnessing fossil fuels, modern medicine, computer science and cryptography, the list goes on... All pioneered by white Europeans.
Only a handful happened between 1 & 8 billion. Everything before, with the exception of agriculture, was trivial to industtialization.