The Relationship of Patriotism and Colonialism

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In the colonial era, patriotism developed high levels of motivation and generated new-found love for a country. The love for a person’s home country allowed Europeans to do great things in the name of their nation. A lot of the advances in technology, increases in economy and exploration happened because of the motivation caused by patriotism. Technology and exploration were vastly motivated by patriotism so that one’s home country could rise above all other colonizing countries. The economy showed less patriotism, but corruption in colony governments were generally low, and little resources were kept in the colonies. Discover all the tiny factors of the relationship between patriotism and colonialism in this detailed document.

A lot of the advances in technology were inspired by one’s desire to helped their nation to reach farther that their own colonial territory. This was achieved in various ways with different levels of relation to technology advancement. There were advancements in the levels of education that provided the requirements for the development of technology, which in turn helped the people research into transport for exploration in the name of their kingdom. (in-text) Once in a while, colonizing countries would encounter unfriendly natives, and that would lead to an increased need for weapon evolvement and increased weapon production. The reason for there being a motivation for advancing the technology of the world is the curiosity of what could happen if our country had something that other countries didn’t have. (in-text)That was the general reason for the technology advancement motivation of the population. But, once in a while, when there was an emergency, there would be a steep rise in patriotism to save th...

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