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For a while I've felt that European colonialism has its roots in Roman ideology. After the "conversion" of the Roman Emperor Constantine, official Christianity became a front for the Roman Empire. Even the Protestant churches that broke away from Rome inherited the Roman tendency towards totalitarianism and religious intolerance. With the exception of Alexander the Great, Europeans were not colonialists before the time of the Roman Empire.
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