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Imperialists around the world used ideas of racial, national, and cultural superiority to justify imperialism. One of these ideas was Social Darwinism which was the belief that life consists of competitive struggles in which only the fittest survive. Social Darwinists felt that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over inferior peoples and cultures. In an 1899 interview president McKinley explained "We could not give (the Philippines) back to Spain- that would be cowardly and dishonorable." instead he argued that the United States had no choice but to "take them all, and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize...them.".
Your answer is D. The four noble truths. To achieve Nirvana one must accomplish the four noble truths.
It eroded it because the colonists were forced to fight the French on the American territories. They didn't want to do this because the French were good trading partners and the colonists had good relations with them, so they became unsatisfied that they were drawn into a war that was against their well being by the British.
Answer: The Malesian Botanical Subkingdom, South and Central America, and West and Central Africa
