Why did France take up the idea of civilization mission during mid nineteenth century? Give one reason.
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The French people took the idea of civilization mission during the mid nineteenth century because they wanted to spread their culture around the world.
In an attempt to achieve this, they made people in their colonies to learn French language.
This idea of civilization was to realize that the colonies adopted western culture fully and to achieve this, the French colonizers made sure that their culture, language and education was adopted by the colonies.
The intellectual root of the mission called Civilis trice can be found in ancient Christian tradition during the Middle Ages.
European thinkers had familiarised social changes by means of development metaphor.
In the eighteenth century, history saw a unilinear never-ending process of social evolution activity keeping the European nations in front. Colonialists considered "backward" nations as disables.
Marquis, who was a Progressive thinker, formulated a holy duty to help those peoples who were underdeveloped. Criticism considered development as a means of a colonial civilizing enterprise.