Capitalism saw its inception during the reign of Henry VIII who, in his search for capital and a speedy divorce, oversaw the dissolution of 600 monasteries. Establishing himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England, he then seized the monastic lands which he then sold to the aristocracy. This triggered the first great land privatization in history during which he essentially sold the nations entire welfare system and ended the common rights to land. This meant that free men and women, were ejected off their commons and had no way to provide for their way of life. Hence the land grab destroyed entire ways of life and forced whole families into decimation; very little has changed in the way corporate subjugation is performed today. The violent termination of the monasteries in the latter half of the 1530s solidified monarchical absolutism and set the stage for capitalism. This developed into the pursuit of land in the colonies and eventually foreign lands. It was this predacious form of capitalism that eventually found its way to the …show more content…
They were mindful of ethnic, linguistic, and regional distinctions but were politically unified first under the caliphate and the sultanates subsequent to that; hence nationalism in the Muslim world is a product of colonialism. Further complicating the matter, many of these nation-states were created in an ad hoc manner. British interests in Persian Gulf oil brought about the formation of Kuwait. Britain required control of Egypt in order to safeguard the primary route to India, New Zealand, Malaysia and Australia, which were all part of the British Empire at that time. Lebanon was carved out of Syria by France and Britain formed Jordan to reward King Abdullah, who fought during WW I. In many cases, this gratuitous re-carving of colonized territory aggravated already existing ethnic, linguistic, and religious