Why did Europe colonize the world
African perspective on why Europe conquered and colonized the world
Europe conquered and colonized the world in order to fulfill prophecy. I know your professor probably told you that it was to civilize the world, but that is completely false.
Blacks (Africans) have civilized Europe multiple times even before Europe was given the times, and even currently as they possess the times. Ancient Egypt (Mizraim), Kush – Nubia – Ethiopia -Sudan, Yisra’el, Elam, Chaldea, Phut, Libya, Philstim, Moors, Carthage and many more, have all shaped Europe. So civilization is out of question.
Gun powder is another reason for conquest you might have in mind. Although it helped speed it up, gun powder is not the reason why Europe conquered and colonized the world. In fact, guns and gunpowder are not even European inventions. Therefore, if gunpowder was the prerequisite for conquest, then whoever had gun powder before Europeans would have conquered the world.
Another interesting theory is the ‘tournament model’. Just like the rest, it fails to provide conclusive analyses and answers to this pertinent question. It simply provides some vague conditions which ‘according’ to the author, were only met by Europeans, hence elevating them to conquest. Those set conditions were apparently not met by Ottomans, Indians and Chinese, let alone the Africans, Native Americans, indigenous Australians and other Asiatics.
In the eyes of the author, about 1000 years ago, the Ottomans, Indians and Chinese were more developed at the time than western Europe. What I find interesting is that the Author fails to mention the kingdoms and empires of Africa that were much more advanced than the entire Europe (west or east), yet he is supposedly a professor of history in a university somewhere.