I said taming the /world/, not taming people. English isn't that hard a language to understand, is it?
Things like central heating and air conditioning, indoor plumbing, worldwide communication, rapid transit, etc. etc.
Some male ex-slaves were allowed to vote before some white men too. Also, in America, it took nearly 100 years from the time when only wealthy landowners could vote, to the time when all men could vote, and then it only took about 13 years until the first women could vote, in Wyoming in 1869, less than 100 years after America was "born". Don't act like men were /allowed/ to vote (after meeting certain requirements, mind you, they've never actually had it as a right) for multiple /hundreds/ of years before women were given /the right/ to vote.