Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Totalitarianism, Monroe Doctrine, Ted Robert Gurr
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Consequences of imperialism and ways in which it is sustained. It was the fate of non-christians to become slaves to christians. Christian theologians of the time had a difficult time explaining and labelling other and unfamiliar cultures and races (e. g. africans). St. augustine (354 430 a. d. : claimed that the children of noah"s son hams (in the bible) condemned to slavery, moved to africa. Thus, african slavery and imperialism was biblically justified and part of fate. In addition, social darwinism has a significant impact: darwin: survival is based on adaptability abilities, problem: darwin"s ideas were wrongly applied to people, in the form of herbert. Spencer"s (1820-1903) idea of survival of the fittest. there was no room for questioning this theory, because it was presented as science: effects of it for those conquered. Cotton and jute were extremely hot commodities and india was considered the crown jewel for imperialism.