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>>11133695
... realy believed and did what they did because it was the will of God, and their sucess was just a reflection of such will. This isen't limited to the Europeans tho.
The arabs and later on, turks, did make a colonial process in very similar wishes to the ones europeans did. Althought arab colonization wasen't as large scale or state policy as in Europe and so on, the wish to get trade, spread their faith and culture and in general have more land to exploit, made groups such as the turks to have systems in with the sultan himself would spend sometime in newly conquered regions for such regions to know who their new master was. And this touches on the second thing I shall speak about.

2. Slavery and Exploitation
A colony, by defalt, needs to have economical exploitation. Otherwise isen't realy a very lucrative place, and colonys are expensive. In Brazil, colonial elites had to do manual job just to barely scrap by, and the portuguese HATED manual labour, thats why they used slavery. Slavery was very lucrative business and a very effcient economical system for a long period of history. Until the industrial revolution, the way people taught about wealthy was in the quantity of land a person or country holds, and this has a good reason, because you needed land to eat, and if you don't eat, you die and dont make richs. But non-mechanized large scale farming is FUCKING HARD. People died sometimes farmed and still hardly lived, Their diet was poor and their bodys got destroyed by the repetitive and arduous labour. Slavery was a way that people, specialy from early civilizations, found to counter this hardness of farming. The slave, isen't realy a person, he is more of a thing. And even if he is a person, he isen't a person like me, so anything that happens to him, shouden't be my concern (Schimitt lays very well this stuff of ' us vs then ', and this is very visible specialy in the muslim world and ancient europe). The slaves are pushed to their limit, they often die in hard labour, but they are a form to generated products that can be put to their limit without a moral guilty or without caring for their well being, because they aren't like me and my countrymen. This economical system is said to be one of the downfalls of the Roman Empire: they stoped their expansion, as such, no more slaves, as such, no more labour force for a slave economy. On the middle ages, there was slavery, specialy on the muslim world, and the muslim world may be worse because the first slave rebellion on history was there, and the muslims had a very complicated system of who and how you can be put to slavery. Basicaly it follows this logic:
>You are a muslim. You can't be a slave.
>You are a non-muslim, you can be a slave.
>You are a non-muslim who converted to islam. Well, I need to know exactly how to deal with you...
And so on. And this slavery by the muslims is kinda of fucked. The person who created the wahabbism, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, said that...
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