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How Did The Americans View The Non Europeans
Throughout history and until today, the West and the East and their views upon each other’s are questionable. In the Middle Ages, and during the expansion and declining of empires and during the processes of transfer of power between societies, the Europeans had viewed the non-europeans and treated them differently, and so did the non-Europeans. The power controlled the treatment methods, and it controlled the views eventually. In this paper, different events, and calamities describes some of the views for both sides from different perspectives.
During the Crusades’ war the Frankish were described clearly by the Muslims. Usmah Ibn Munqidh, a Muslim warrior who experienced the Frankish behaviors gave a clear picture of the Franks in terms of their morals, their behavior with Muslims and their strengths and weaknesses. The Franks,
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Europeans were considered harsh and mistreating when they had power, and they were considered weak at the time they lost their power. However, non-Europeans were considered weak and mistreated when the Europeans had power, but for the time they had power their justice, moralities and treatment were always appreciated. Their values, depictions to the Europeans were admired. The Europeans Contempt non-European when they are weaker than them, or when they threatens their power, the Europeans usually feared the non-Europeans and their power, and when the power was in their hands they misused with the non-Europeans. The sources give different perspectives, but they all share the same concept, the non-European stories might seem more convincing as both the non-Europeans and the Europeans situations were illustrated and viewed, the non-Europeans were mistreated by the Europeans in all versions and the times they got the power they had the moralities to not mistreat. The Europeans version did not contradict the views of the non-Europeans in terms of their

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