#aaaaaaaaaahhh

one thing that i think a lot of modern people really cannot wrap their heads around when it comes to colonialism from the ancient world up until the second agricultural revolution, the shape it took and why it was so far reaching is that, at the time, those people were living in a world where you could not take for granted that your neighbor had the same values you did in regards to life, liberty, and the pursuit of personal happiness. That this was a period in which sometimes people who had values very similar to what we have today in the post christian colony world living directly beside people who held views much more similar to the Aztecs, who were hated by the country living and nomadic tribal peoples who lived around them for their consistent degradation of the working and peasant classes. but it's not very socially acceptable to say that when Abrahamic settler colonialism first sprang up on the scene the people peddling it thought it was a good thing that would save the world, and the reason they thought that was because some, again not all but some, of the groups living under different creeds did shit like eat people coerce human sacrifice and other horrible shit and so they didn't ask questions before attempting to impose their own concept of morality upon the peoples that they met when the world at home became so toxic it wasn't worth staying in (in the 1500s England was covered in open cesspits, a type of farm that used human waste as raw material to refine niter which is used in gunpowder and so during this period important for national defense this is the reason they took India, because the Ganges river does this naturally)