Well never mind about 5 thousand years for now, but
it is simnply not correct that "all the evidence shows that India could
not compete with EuropE since all the evidence shows that it OUT competed it
on virtually every score. China did even more so. And THAT does bear
on the "capitalism" argument. Alas Marx and Weber got it WRONG when
the saw/wrote that something like that started in Europe and spread from
there to the rest of the world.
I dunno what synchronic or wahtever is suposed to mean, but I alos dunno
why its suposed to be bad! sort of the opposite of "I dunno what it is,
but I know i dont like it!"
regards
gunder frank