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No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion.
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Of course - there are a great many factors behind Europe being the ones to discover the Americas, and not vice-versa. But, importantly, many other Old World regions had the same access to material goods and technology that Europe did - China in particular - but did not end up discovering (or exploiting) the Americas.
The point in rejecting environmental determinism is not the rejection of environmental factors, but the rejection of determinism - history is a vast field, and even small changes can arrest entire civilizations.
That's fair, I'm definitely no expert but the two theories seem very in line with each-other. The difference being how "certain" the outcome would be.