During the time of Hitler's power, he attempted to conquer other nations to take over the world. That was sort of the idea at the time of the Age of Exploration before the 18th century. People like Christopher Columbus and Hernando de Soto tried to explore the Earth, conquering new lands.
Similarly, Adolph Hitler during his during his power, attempted to take over many surrounding nations to Germany. As he acquired the helpless countries, he restricted the rights of the citizens in them; primarily Jews and people who weren't "German".
Correspondingly, during the Age of Exploration, nations like Spain or France were invading unexplored areas and gaining new lands. When they gained control of the lands, the Native Americans were treated unfairly and were hated by many. Hitler prohibited anyone who wasn't German from doing many things. In The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne describes how Jews had to go to only Jewish stores and restaurants. Alike that, Native Americans were restricted from doing pretty much anything and were even forced out of their own land.
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ReplyDeleteI think this is a really good connection because, as you said, the Native Americans during exploration had to leave their homes just like the Jews during the Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteBoth groups of people were pretty much innocent, too.
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China had a very similar idea of taking over the world. During China's Age of Exploration, many Eastern Asia countries were conquered and then added to the Chinese Empire. Each conquered nation would have to obey the Emperor's every law, and in most cases the emperor restricted rights over a certain social class. The Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368 AD) made a great number of accomplishments and one of them being that China had almost taken over East Asia. The Mongols, being a conquered people during this dynasty, were treated as insuperior or much less civilized by the Chinese.
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