We all know that the Spanish were the most benevolent, and the Belgians and Japanese were the most barbaric, but what about in-between? The French? British? Dutch? Portuguese, Ottoman? Russian? Italian? Danish? American?
Of this map, at this time (1914) specifically?>SpainPurely because they had almost no colonies to speak of here. They couldn't really be barbaric to no one.>United StatesDidn't really have a colonial empire to be barbaric to. Their treatment of the Philippines wasn't as oppressive as the Euros to their colonies.>OttomansThey had very few non-muslims to suppress at this time anymore.If we're going historically they're probably one of the worse though, due to abducting random Christians, force converting them to Islam and circumcising them, then making them into slave soldiers.>JapanGoing to get a lot of hate for this one, but Japan wasn't really "bad" to the Koreans before the 1930s. The whole comfort women thing is overblown anyway, but that hadn't even happened by this point. They just forced them to use Kanji.>PortugalTheir African colonies were well established at this point, so they were long past the era of repression to create peace.>GermanyOnly slightly worse than the Portuguese on account of being more authoritarian.>ItalySimilar story to Portugal, they were largely benevolent in Africa. They get marked down a few points for the policies they had against the Muslims in Libya to pacify them.>FranceAgain, not too cruel. There was some aggressive attempts to impose their language in Africa though, so they weren't squeaky clean.>RussiaGenerally okay, but they had frequent pogroms and massacres.>BelgiumObviously the worst of their abuses had stopped by this point, but the Congo still wasn't treat well by any means.>NetherlandsHorrific resource-extraction empire in Indonesia, treat the natives terribly.>BritainExtremely exploitative, dealt with their subjects with contempt at worst and severe negligence at best, callous disregard for famines, brutal conditions for workers, basically rebranded slavery as "indentured servitude".
>>18509204i meant in their peakin this case, even when spanish america was at its peak during the 17th century, they were relatively fair in their treatmentcomfort women was a meme, most of japan’s worst actions were in china, philippines, and indonesia anywaysgermans did the whole herero and nama genocide in namibia, also obviously the nazisportugal imported 40% of all african slaves to brazil (the most of all) and raped the natives left and right; they only get points for not having segregationturks massacred armenians and traded white barbary slaves, but were pretty nice when giving funds to the irishthe french were nice in quebec, but absolute brutes in haiti1914 was when the brits peaked, makes sense when they were most evil
>>18509171The Ottoman Empire was the most benevolent and kind empire and such goodness was their downlfallEmpires like France, Spain nd Britain were completely genocided and if Osman followed Spanish example at their treatment of their muslim minority the entirety of the balkans would be turkish muslims
>>18509204Oh the horrors of recruiting below poverty line children into prestigious institutions of learning and martial arts and granting them the most prestigious positions in the imperial army, such oppression
>>18509237Genocidal*
>>18509171italy is often overlooked for being a "weak" power, but good lord they were extreme brutes in libyaan estimate fatality rate of 50%
>>18509171In Africa it basically went:Portugal > UK > France > Germany > Italy > Belgium
