ABSTRACT
We posit a world system continuity thesis. Our purpose is to help replace Eurocentric history and social science by a more humanocentric and eventually also ecocentric approach. Our guiding idea is the continuous history and development of a single world system in Afro-Eurasia for at least 5,000 years. This world historical-social scientific approach challenges received studies that attribute ‘the rise of the West’ to European exceptionalism. In our view, the rise to dominance of the West is only a recent, and perhaps a passing event.
