Questions of Weber Introduction

As you mentioned, Weber underline how important the contribution from Western made towards the field of development and study, which is much more than the contribution from other regions, which other regions have plenty of deficiencies, while Western helped fill these vacancy. Can you list some examples in which parts Western contributed the most and which gaps do they filled in?

Weber says that "It must be one of the tasks of sociological and historical investigation first to analyse all the influences and causal relationships which can satisfactorily be explained in terms of reactions to environmental conditions." (pg xlii) Can you give some examples which used sociological and historical investigation to analyse and get the results.