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Setting aside the fact that you couldn't even manage to get the dates for the Industrial Revolution right, your entire argument hinges on the laughable presumption that all advances anywhere on Earth outside of Europe were doled out to the inhabitants by Europeans, and that colonized nations, left to their own devices, would not have advanced.
I would go so far as to say that if the age of European colonialism had not happened, the world outside of Europe wiuld be even more advanced, and if anything it would be Europe that was lagging behind - that colonialism was a positive in the long run only for Europe, and was a negative for everyone else.
Europe almost reached modern technology 2K years ago during the Roman empire/Republic. Europe by the 1700s was centuries ahead of everywhere else, next closest being China. In the current age Europe would still be leading unless the whole world happened to copy the Industrial Revolution if the word got out
Yeah, and then Christianity took off and Europe ended up collapsing into ignorance and barbarism that it only managed to pull itself out of by stealing from the rest of the world.
The only quality that made Europe stand apart was a sort of cultural insanity - a loathsome combination of stultifying ignorance, unbridled greed and religious fervor that led vile scumbags to sail to other lands specifically in order to steal, murder and oppress.
And they couldn't even manage that without first stealing navigation technology from the Arabs.