In hindsight, it becomes uncertain as to whether or not economic and global advances are worth the pain of subjugation and conquest. Without European interference, it may have been a slower process in developing the lands of the Americas and Africa. Without slave work, economies would not have been stimulated as much as they were. It is possible to demonstrate the vast number of cultural, political, and economic negatives of global commerce and European supremacy, but without the desire to explore, global commerce would have remained an idealized concept. The “civilizing mission” was, for the most part, accomplished between the 16th and 19th centuries utilizing some questionable tactics by European powers in order to stimulate stagnant economies through conquest. These debatable tactics dramatically altered previously established political, global, cultural and economic structures around the world in favor of the European
In hindsight, it becomes uncertain as to whether or not economic and global advances are worth the pain of subjugation and conquest. Without European interference, it may have been a slower process in developing the lands of the Americas and Africa. Without slave work, economies would not have been stimulated as much as they were. It is possible to demonstrate the vast number of cultural, political, and economic negatives of global commerce and European supremacy, but without the desire to explore, global commerce would have remained an idealized concept. The “civilizing mission” was, for the most part, accomplished between the 16th and 19th centuries utilizing some questionable tactics by European powers in order to stimulate stagnant economies through conquest. These debatable tactics dramatically altered previously established political, global, cultural and economic structures around the world in favor of the European