To be fair, I think you could make the case that the technological advancement of the Western European powers led to almost a DSA.
England had the biggest empire in the history of the world (population wise). The countries which were technologically ahead of others did kinda stomp on the rest of the world
It wasn’t literally one world power, but it was a sizeable fraction that way, especially if you consider European culture as a unit instead of just the UK.
To be fair, I think you could make the case that the technological advancement of the Western European powers led to almost a DSA.
England had the biggest empire in the history of the world (population wise). The countries which were technologically ahead of others did kinda stomp on the rest of the world
It wasn’t literally one world power, but it was a sizeable fraction that way, especially if you consider European culture as a unit instead of just the UK.