> And stealing and plundering the rest of the world of course. The Europeans were supplicants to the courts of Mughal Indian and Imperial China in the 1600s. B

> And stealing and plundering the rest of the world of course. The Europeans were supplicants to the courts of Mughal Indian and Imperial China in the 1600s. By the late 1700s and 1800s the Europeans were stomping on everyone due to their advances in weapons. The question that is being asked is: what caused the change in those 150-200 years?