I do think wars and colonizations somehow made people poor. For example my country India, we had 30% of world's money before British colonization 100 years ago. Now we are struggling.
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I do think wars and colonizations somehow made people poor. For example my country India, we had 30% of world's money before British colonization 100 years ago. Now we are struggling.
Western Conolization used their own poor people as terraformers and cannon fodder, and other forms of slavery. History books don't mention what has happened to the poor Europeans during colonization of the so called "new world" and the industrial revolution, which removed all the small landholders from the common lands, moved them to the cities, and starved/worked them to death, used them as cannon fodder in wars or moved them to debt prisons and shipped them off to work their debt off on new world plantations.
India, or what we now call India, has been at war forever. I remember studying King Ashoka, the third Mauryan, who ruled between 269 BC and 233 BC, and his reign of horrible wars in my Buddhist studies.
We, humans, keep falling for the same old con jobs, hate other poor folks, fight for the elites manufactured wars, and follow authority no matter how crazy they are.
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Sounds about true, india was ruled by a lot of kings and always been at war but we were rich at least. Last 200 years been a struggle for India. Somehow we are bouncing back.
I don't know what you mean by rich; maybe people in India had it better than most Europeans back in the day. India is huge and has a long history. Heck, I don't know my own history that well!
But most Europeans struggled even during the medieval period because of ongoing wars between feudal lords. This is what Europeans suffered under, and it seems as if nothing has changed. Even here in America our contract with the government has been broken, and we are now back to this:
" fief (/fiːf/; Latin: feudum) was the central element of feudalism. It consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty. The fees were often lands or revenue-producing real property held in feudal land tenure: these are typically known as fiefs or fiefdoms. However, not only land but anything of value could be held in fee, including governmental office, rights of exploitation such as hunting or fishing, monopolies in trade, and tax farms.(wiki)
As per the history we used to have rich culture and resources. My grandpa used to tell me people used to buy diamonds and gold on the streets like street food during Sri krishna devaraya period. We lost it all.