Indeed. Colonized peoples had resources that the colonial powers wanted and so they made reasons why it was okay to extract these resources. The inferiority of 'primitive' cultures was the ideology that legitimized the land grabs.
Right. Some people make the mistake to assume that colonization happened because of negative sterotypes. They were colonized because the other guys had better weapons and they had fertile land, gold and other nice things. There is an interesting book about the connection between non-inheriting sons in europe and colonization by Wolfssohn IIRC. The romans already had their concept of just war which in practice meant coming up with reasons why to conquer some area after the conquest had already been decided to be done.
Originally Posted by Tuco
Some of his most recent writings even commented on the attempts to write a sequel for Lord of the Rings, but he decided soon enough that "it was a very depressing and dark tale about some of the most unflattering sides of humanity and not something worth telling" (not an exact quote; I'm fishing from years-old memories).
The fall of Gondor. Afer the reign of Aragorn things would start to fall apart due to political strife and cultural decline.
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I sometimes use thought experiments. I don't necessarily believe in every idea I post for discussion on this forum
