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Re:How did Europe become the richest part of the world? by mafribe on Sunday February 19, 2017 @08:20AM (#13679545)
As I said in another post: this begs the question: why did the Europeans manage to be so much better at brute military conquest/colonisation than anybody else? Rest assured that everbody else also tried ...
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Re:How did Europe become the richest part of the world? by throwawaymister on Monday February 20, 2017 @03:29PM (#13690612)
Guns (Military weaponry) and the Bible (Idealogy, Culture). They used their bigger better guns to physical subjugate their subjects. They then used their religion or the idea that their culture was superior to mentally subjugate them. Once their subjects were physically and mentally subjugated they proceeding to build an economic empire on their backs.
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Re:How did Europe become the richest part of the world? by mafribe on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @09:17AM (#13695594) 

    to mentally subjugate them.
This is a daring proposal. What you are essentially saying is that we could simply walk into another country, tell the population: "Hey we are better than you, do as I tell you" ... and voila, we rule them.

It really doesn't work this way. If you don't believe me, try your scheme on your neighbours. Report back.

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