Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

(05-16-2024 04:23 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(05-16-2024 03:33 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  perhaps no democracies in the world.

Why? Can you explain what you mean here? Thank you.

I believe that at the time Europe had divided up the world with colonization.

The prime example, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British Government took over the administration to establish the British Raj. The British Raj was the period of British Parliament rule on the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947, for around 89 years of British occupation. The system of governance was instituted in 1858 when the rule of the East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria.

European colonization was a massive structural event, whereby the imperial powers of Europe including Spain, France, England, the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, and later (in the 1880's) Germany and Italy, violently invaded the lands of North, South, and Central America, Australia, New Zealand, China, ...

Can you be a democracy and subjugate other peoples of the world at the same time?

What's the difference between this and the Roman Empire, with its subjugation of conquered peoples?