A single individual. For example, Tsar Nicholas the second was "Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias".
Europeans where extremely self righteous in there ways, so religion is out of the question because it would not have mattered, even when they were taken to America and practice Christianity Europeans still treated them like dirt. They saw Africans and noticed how little technology they had , such as gun powder, which was and an advantage The Europeans had . They saw themselves as superior .
In politics and government, a spoils system (also known as a patronage system) is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends (cronyism), and relatives (nepotism) as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for them.
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Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin