Biggest difference is, we did not make as
good an impression on History.
It is a capital mistake to judge the whole of history based on the experiences of our lifetimes. It is one of the many problems with clo-logic. That said, there are at least a few thousand people still alive in Europe at this moment who would quite willingly beat the living dog crap out of you for saying that- even though they're in their eighties and nineties.