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How Did Blauts Contribute To The Development Of Eurocentrism

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Blauts perspective on European culture and history development helped him become one of the most known philosophers of the Eurocentrism. Eurocentrism is the promotion of European being more advanced to the other western countries such as Africa and Asia. The belief that the Europeans have more advantages than disadvantages than there other western countries is an delusion. Blauts disputes with some of the Philosophers that are wrong. 1492 : The Debate on Colonialism, eurocentrism and History is the real formation of Europeans Domination. The cultural Evolution started in 1492 because that was the superior year for the Europeans. The Europeans began to dominate the world passing Asia and Africa. Philosophers such as Karl Marx who believed …show more content…

Blauts argues that even if Europe did not take advantage of their countries extra room for development other countries would have sent settlers to find more places to establish political control over. The life of Feudalism forming into capitalism and capitalism spreading was destined to happen without control.Class struggle between serfs and lords influenced depopulation and was the main cause of declined feudalism northwestern Europe. In which some cases the peasants won the class struggle. Peasant were not predominantly landowners in other countries because capitalism was beginning to spread rapidly more in the rural towns than the in countryside. England was the only place where the landowners gripped their land and peasants remained tenants. Economic exploration in America in the sixteenth and seventeenth century was vastly intensive. It is the true argument behind why capitalism is not the only reason Europe dominates the world. Europe just happened to be one of the countries that grabbed the opportunity to expanded due to social , economic , and political of colonial accumulation. It goes against the Eurocentrism idea that Europe was superior to all the other countries and the other countries were weak causing the uneven landscape and

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