Civilization perspective and world map of the Western powers in the 19th century

If you rank them from civilized to uncivilized,

enlightened

civilized

semicivilized

barbaric

slavish, uncivilized

This is the order

Enlightened: All of Europe (except Southern Italy and the Balkans), some large cities in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), and the eastern United States.

Civilized: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Southern Italy, Balkans

Semi-civilized: Iraq, Egypt, North Africa, Iran, India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Indonesia, Brunei

Savage: Korean Peninsula, Manchuria, most of Russia, Mongolia, central United States (provinces being colonized)

Slave: All of sub-Saharan Africa, the Brazilian jungle, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Canada, the United States, Chile, and indigenous peoples of Argentina.

The civilization of each region as seen by the Western powers at the time was roughly as follows.