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Regan Jacobs

18 October, 15:01

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its

superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners

never do.

--Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Which of the following examples would serve best to demonstrate the above "fact"?

O

A) the establishment of a seigneurial system in New France

OB) the conversion of the Hurons by the Jesuit Christian Missionaries of Quebec

OC) the campaigns of the conquistadors

O

D) indigenous population decline in the Americas from exposure to European

diseases