Your assumption that brutal, self-serving invasion and colonization is a uniquely European vice is, shall we say, historically ignorant. The largest empire in history (prior to the Industrial Revolution, which started in Europe and created the modern world) was the Mongol empire of Kublai Khan, which extended all the way from Kamchatka to Europe. And they weren’t exactly nice guys either; Kublai Khan is estimated to have been directly responsible for the massacres of more people than Stalin and Hitler combined. History has shown that any time one empire gains a technological edge over its neighbors, they invade them, steal their land, and massacre, rape, or enslave the original inhabitants. Troops of chimps do likewise…