In ancient times (1800-1900),
My frined... this is not "ancient times"
This is 100-200 years ago!

Asia was by far the richest before the industri revolution (~1800s)
India and China together had around 50% of global economy until industrial revoltuion
basically, asians got too rich and lazy like western countries now and thought that europeans are not a threat.
but europeans like christopher colombo wanted to find way to asia to get the riches like silk and spice.
instead, they found america, with many free resources.
and they also started industry revolution with machine which gave even more power, while china and india think white man is stupid and no threat

now maybe you can say... its happening reverse becasue india and china was poor and now hungry
