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They thought they were making their lives easier

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They thought that they were doing good by forcing the africans to move and practice different religions when really they made African lives hell.

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They thought what they were doing was justified by the bible

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Due to being white they thought they were more scientifically evolved.

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They thought they were making their lives easier

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they believed that they were all the same underneath the skin but they made the Africans had to do certain things in order to be considered "equals"

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The Europeans believed they were doing gods work

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The Europeans believed they were doing gods work

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They thought they were helping them evolve into higher people by forcing their religion and language on to them, as well as many other things.

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They thought they were better and more advanced than the Africans.

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They believed that the African people would end up dying off because they thought they were inferior

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They believed they were helping the African people by enforcing their culture and rules.

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They thought they were more civilized and that they were helping the africans change from their "savage" ways.

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They thought that they were in more charge and that they were more civilized. They thought that they were more civilized because they didn't really care and just assumed the africans weren't as good as they were.

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They thought they were helping by trying to teach them

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They thought they were helping by trying to teach them

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The Europeans justified racism by trying to help Africa be civilized and not be barbaric

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Some theories and beliefs that justified racism could be that they thought they were helping the Africans to become more civilized because they looked at them as people who needed help. They wanted the Africans to have a better life when in reality they were doing fine on their own.

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They thought their culture and way of life was more civilized because they didn't take the time to understand the Africans.

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The Europeans used Darwin's theory of evolution to state how they were more evolved than the Africans because they had left Africa and had "evolved" to be superior.

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Some theories and beliefs that the Europeans used to justify their racism is using Charles Darwin's beliefs that the superior race got further in evolution. The Europeans used this by declaring that they were the superior race.

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They thought they brought better lives and taught them to be more civilized.

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They thought they were more evolved and civilized because they traveled out of Africa

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The Europeans believed that what they were doing was okay because they thought they were giving them a better life by forcing new beliefs and lifestyles on them, when in reality they were ruining the Africans lives.

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They believed they were more evolved than the Africans.

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they believed that the Africans were put on this earth to serve white men

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They thought they were giving them better lives by taking them away from their home land. They thought the African people were not civilized and could not fend for them selves.

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Some theories and beliefs that Europeans developed to justify their racism is that they would make it seem as if they were "helping" Africans but they didn't need any help.