It merged charles darwin’s theory of natural selection and herbert spencer’s. Ideas of racial superiority were the only. Europeans used social darwinism to justify empire building by their belief that they had the right and the duty to bring the results of their progress to other countries.
Many ideas were used to justify british imperialism, such as the desire to spread christianity. Social darwinism was used to justify imperialism. Social darwinism became a powerful ideological tool that supported the expansion of the british empire.
Europeans used social darwinism to justify their empire building, arguing that their cultural, biological, and technological superiority made them naturally more fit to rule over. Europeans used social darwinism to justify empire building by their belief that they had the right and the duty to bring the results of their progress to other countries. Europe utilized the principles of social darwinism, a theory extrapolating darwin's concepts of evolution and natural selection, to justify its imperialistic pursuits and empire. Europeans used social darwinism to justify empire building by their belief that they had the right and the duty to bring the results of their progress to other countries.
Social darwinism provided a justification for imperialism by suggesting that stronger nations had a natural right to conquer weaker ones. Europeans used social darwinism to justify empire building by their belief that they had the right and the duty to bring the results of their progress to other countries. In the nineteenth century, europeans appealed to this concept to explain discrepancies between different groups within a society (e.g., factory owners versus factory workers) as well as. This work presents the reasons why social darwinism was adopted by many nations and groups of people, as well as how those people utilized social darwinism to their own ends.
Proponents believed that dominating other countries. Social darwinism, a misapplication of charles. In the 1800s, european nations acquired great wealth and power from both the natural resources of the lands they conquered and the forced labor of the people from whom. Europeans used the concepts of social darwinism to justify their empire building during the 19th and early 20th centuries.