- 07 Jul 2020 23:43
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OK, but that alone did not save former empires like Turkey (which had a quite extractive relationship with its subjects outside the borders of present-day Turkey) from eventually failing to develop and neither does it explain why other countries have been able to develop themselves after.
Pants-of-dog wrote:@wat0n
Yes, the issue is always more complicated.
That does not change the fact that the transfer of wealth from (what are now) developing countries helped spur economic and industrial development in Europe, and enriched the business classes or the monarchies in Europe.
Not does it change the fact that colonialism either enriched foreign countries (like extraction colonies) or the settler colonizing country (like Canada and the USA) at the expense of indigenous communities.
OK, but that alone did not save former empires like Turkey (which had a quite extractive relationship with its subjects outside the borders of present-day Turkey) from eventually failing to develop and neither does it explain why other countries have been able to develop themselves after.