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But it is impossible to read much of the history of the world, ancient or modern, without encountering the bloody trail of conquerors and the sufferings they inflicted on the conquered.
Like slavery, imperialism encompassed every branch of the human race, both as conquerors and conquered.
It was an evil that was never localized in fact, however much some conquered peoples have been portrayed as noble victims by intellectuals- even on the eve of those victims assuming the role of victimizers when they got the chance, as many did after Woodrow Wilson's right of "self-determination" of peoples led to oppressed minorities in the dismembered Habsburg and Ottoman Empires acquiring their own nations, in which one of the first orders of business was the oppression of other minorities now living under their thumb.
Yet the story of conquest today is wholly disproportionately told as the story of brutal Europeans conquering innocent native peoples, the latter often depicted as "living in harmony with nature" or some other version of what Jean-François Revel has aptly called "the lyricism of Third World mythology."7 This localization of evil is made to seem plausible by the fact that Europeans have in recent centuries had more wealth, more technology and more firepower with which to do what everyone else had done for thousands of years.
Among the things it imposed on the conquered European population was a turning over of a certain percentage of their boys, who were taken away as slaves, converted to Islam and trained for military roles in the corps of the Janissaries or in various civil positions.
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