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That does not mean much. You can find also African, Asian, Middle Eastern or American Native nations and tribes doing horrible things. Its not a "white" or a "Christian" thing to do evil.
Christian European nations were simply more advanced technologically and philosophically, more explorers and had a better structured society that allowed for the global scale.
Go read Jared Diamond's book, Gun's Germs and Steel. It's old and has been challenged by some, but it's far better than merely saying that Europeans had a more developed culture, which is a very dubious notion.
I would argue the various Indic and East Asian civilizations philosophically were at least as sophisticated as the West, if not moreso. Schopenhauer drew heavily from Asian philosophies, so it's not like "the West" was completely isolated from the East.
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