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it helped and continues to help influence the development of different cultures and nations in Africa. hope this helps :)
The answer is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writing inspired them to view practices like inherited privilege and absolute monarchy as irrational.
If this is from Thirteen Days... I think it boils down to, don't get shot down and don't report it, otherwise the US would respond with war...which is what we tried to avoid during this time period.
Portuguese colonization in the 1400s inaugurated an era of aggressive European expansion across the Atlantic. The Spanish, threatened by the Portuguese monopoly on enslaved Africans and expansion in the Atlantic, started their own colonization project with Christopher Columbus in 1492
