POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Social Class
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As states become national" they seek to increae wealth. Attempt to take at force land from their neighbors. States look elsewhere for wealth, where rules don"t apply. This expansion is led by england spain france and portugal. Extract wealth by sending own population to settle. Europe still tried to find a route to asia. Colonial expansion is driven by the search for wealth. European state benefits from wealth, but mostly companies lead the way and engage in practises of wealth extraction. Expansion to the new worlds provided a new ground between states in. Provided new ground where euro rivalries can play out. Instead of going to war with each other in euro, they fight in new world. Many settlers went to new world for political freedom along with greed. How was europe so easily allowed to dominate the world: shows the way europe understood africa, by naked women and monkeys.