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Mestizo
Religion especially Christianity is a very important aspect in understanding European history; therefore, it is noteworthy to look at the influence of Christianity on European’s notion of superior race (Bisson Lecture 2014; Merriman 2010).During Colonial period, Europeans used their religious beliefs to justify their idea of racial superiority over the indigenous population,Europeans saw that it was their duty to civilize the uncivilized indigenous population by imposing their culture to others -
Napoleon's conquest in Egypt
Napoleon’s conquest is also a key element in understanding European’s notion of race at the time because Westerners believed that civilizations originated from the Middle East Anastassiadis Lecture 2/24/2014). Idea of the time was Neoclassical because it imitates the ideas, arts and architecture from the ancient Greece and Rome. Europeans thought that they were descendants of the Romans and Greeks. -
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Introduction of new crop
European industrialization is in part a product of colonialism since the introduction of new crops such as potato, maize, cacao and tobacco; created political stability and population growth in Europe. Similarly, new crops such as potato and maize generated to the future generation of workers because potato and maize gave children foods that are richer in nutrition, which increased their chance to survive childhood. -
Introduction of new crops in Europe 1840
European industrialization is in part a product of colonialism since the introduction of new crops such as potato, maize, cacao and tobacco; created political stability and population growth in Europe (Mann 2011).New crops will generated the future generation of workers because potato and maize gave children foods that are richer in nutrition, which increased their chance to survive childhood.European colonizers notion of race can influence the social interaction between different ethnic groups. -
Charles Darwin’s Evolutionary theory 1856
Charles Darwin’s Evolutionary theory was used to argue that evolution lead to the production of Western civilization. Darwin’s theory was also used to argue that Third World people were living fossils (Bisson Lecture 1/8/2014). . Unfortunately, Eurocentrism spread into the field of Science such as Anthropology and Archaeology. -
Jules Ferry On French Colonisation (1884)
Ferry embraces the idea that colonies and indigenous people are a source of profit for the Empire. Similarly, Ferry is born in the era where states institutions were casting out religious organizations out of the State Affairs (Anastassiadis Lecture 2/24/2014). Consequently, missionary missions were in peek during that time. -
Adolf Hitler’s Pure Aryan Race and the Nuremberg Laws (1936)
Adolf Hitler’s idea of Pure Aryan Race is an extreme example of how the idea of race can go horribly wrong and will forever remembered in European history for all the million deaths of Jews, hybrid Germans, homosexuals and handicapped people. Jews were always treated differently in Christian Europe during the 19th century because of their distinct religious beliefs and culture (Schorsch ); therefore Jewish were seen as inferior race.
