HIS202H1 Lecture : Lecture #8.docx
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Science, technology and medicine important tools in colonial rule. Science, technology and medicine considered expressions of modernity; superiority" used to justify colonialism. Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Europeans came to believe they had acquired an understanding of the workings of the physical world. And had the ability to tap its natural and human resources. Vastly superior to anything ever achieved (past or present) Europeans explored (and colonized) africa, the americas, the pacific. Encountered thousands of new animals, plants, minerals, Wealth of new objects and information created a demand for new types of order. Over the 19th and early 20th this knowing everything" is mobilized as evidentiary base by which. In many ways the enlightenment" really the great extraction. Western science: assert that africans had not been responsible for a single discovery" or mechanical invention", example:
