Episode #136- What's the Deal with Guns, Germs, and Steel? (Part I)
Our Fake History
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The Evolution of Darwinism
The colonial powers believed that they were simply superior to the world's other peoples. The evolutionary theories of charles darwin were taken and twisted into a set of idea is sometimes called social darwinism. This was the belief that because europeans had evolved in the colder climates of europe this made them stronger, hardier and more clever than people who grew up closer to the equator. It also paired easily with the late nineteenth century eugenics movement,. which advocated for racial segregation and taught that inter racial pairings produced inferior children. While popular in many countries like britain, canada, the united states and sweden, eugenics would go on to
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