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One great effect of the geographical discoveries of the 15th century was ‘the growing belief that America, Asia and Africa were to be used extensively for the benefit of Europeans.’ Comment.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Imperialism and Colonialism

The Age of Discovery did more than redraw the map — it planted the ideological seed of a world divided between a Europe entitled to extract and a non-European world existing to be extracted from.

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  • The Papal and Legal Framework of Entitlement
  • Economic Extraction as the Organizing Purpose
  • The Demographic and Cultural Cost of "Use"
  • From Belief to Structure

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