Back in the Dark Ages, when I was at school, history was largely the story of Great White Men carrying the Light of Civilisation to relieve the misery of the deprived people who lived far from the centre of the world. That's the story: the real reason was so they could rush around and clobber a lot of the locals to grab whatever they had and make off wi…
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