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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (94730)4/18/2003 10:34:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
In the colonialism of the 1500s-1800s, sometimes the soldiers went in first, and sometimes the missionaries did. Either way, they were two aspects of the same process. The missionaries worked to destroy the local culture, and replace it with Western culture. The soldiers worked to destroy

Somebody has taught you an extremely simplistic version of history. In nearly all the cases, it was the merchants who went first and established trading bases. The British came to India and the Portuguese to Africa as traders.
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