Gunpowder played a very beneficial role for the Europeans and a very detrimental role for the natives when it came to conquest, since almost all the natives in the newly-discovered lands could only fight back with man-made weapons such as spears. <span />
The most important individual responsible for the inclusion of Roman educated intellectuals into early Christianity was "<span>a. Augustine of Hippo," since he thought that this would greatly help stabilize the empire. </span><span />
They thought that as the working classes grew more aware of the exploitation that they supposedly suffer from the upper classes they would rise up and, just as feudalism was replaced by capitalism, that communism would replace capitalism.