Saw the post about Viking Age of Exploration, I give you the Portuguese Age of Exploration.

"also knowledge and better lives"

They were not sharing knowledge. They were exterminating cultures that also had a lot of knowledge to share.

Calling european culture and morals "better lives" is quite a colonizer mentality. What makes you think that this is better than what they had before? Natives had to start destroying the environment, fearing a punishing god... People only call it better because it is the side that won.

Even believing that we live better now than in the past is anachronism, because of course we prefer nowadays since that's when we were raised. If you say "better lives", you have to define what "better" means and according to who

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