AMIND 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White Supremacy, Age Of Discovery, Profit Motive
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Amind140 lecture 3 culture of conquest, doctrine of discovery & christopher. Conquest starts with the crusades: 11-13th centuries, europeans conducted crusades to conquer north africa and middle east in the name of religion, religion justified colonialism. Doctrine of discovery age of discovery 15th-16th centuries: definition: a government asserting the right to appropriate and de-legitimize long- established autonomous indigenous peoples" governments based on christendom. Gold fever: doctrine of discovery fueled by gold fever . After displacement of poor europeans, for the first time in human history, the majority of europeans depended on the wealthy minority capitalist-based colonialism: gold = currency which drove colonizing ventures by wealthy minority. Christianity was decreed the exclusive state religion of the empire in 380 ce: middle ages: the church converted pagan kings in europe and the british isles, often by force of arms and threat of eternal damnation.
