> An exclusively European phenomenon, the bulk of which came and went while it was a backwater region with limited effect on the rest of the world.

Weird that it had limited effect on the rest of the world, since basically history from now back to about the 15th century represents a European hegemony, now a US hegemony that extends European Western philosophy to the world.

Seems that "limited effect" is pretty big. So much so that we're /literally discussing it now in 2022/.