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keep wise partners, farmer bills provisions, muzzleloaders.com, New Dominion Design Co, Founders Ministries,

and our supporters at patreon.com. In the age of empires, the dark continent of Africa stood as a beacon, welcoming explorers, expansionists, and adventurers.

While the world was modernizing, all the British

empire's most talented, risk-taking entrepreneurs ventured south of the equator for a land of

opportunity and deep enchantment. Their goal was to settle, exercise dominion, and establish

outposts of Christian society in otherwise tribal domains that had not yet seen

the roots of advanced civilization take hold, lands that lacked sustainable food supplies, let alone

civil order. But as the old world in Europe industrialized, it also became safer, more

bureaucratic, and more politically correct. Just a few decades into the 20th

century, the seeds of self-loathing among colonial empires found fertile soil. This self-loathing

proved to be a bitter nightshade, leading to the suicide of the West by self-administered poison.

World War II would be the death of old world colonialism and the rise of

statist Marxism, as well as a different brand of globalist egalitarianism that hated, perhaps

above all, white men. Within a few decades of the war's end, decolonization and egalitarian

globalism would demand cultural self-immolation as a chief national

priority. But before all that happened, daring empire builders would go to one of the few remaining

frontiers left to explore, Africa. One of those men was Cecil Rhodes, a British magnet who

obtained mineral rights from local leaders in 1888.

Rhodes Company was the British South Africa Company, and it was awarded rights to the territory from the Limpopo to Lake Tanganyaki.

The territory would be named Rhodes after Rhodes in 1895.

Rhodesia would become a white-ruled nation with expanding wealth, agriculture, and societal stability.

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