Weekly Article 01

10,000 BC is an excellent prehistoric epic to show both political and economic imperialism. It deals with the time Period of 10, 000 BC(Obviously) and a young mammoth hunter from the "Other side of the mountain" fighting his way to the "City of the Gods" to rescue the love of his life from the clutches of the Slave-catchers and take down the corrupted empire ruled by one of the three "gods"

In the movie there are the rulers and the slaves. These rulers go around stealing and snatching people to do slave work.
These Slave-catchers run from village to village on horse back to find their strongest men to become slaves, they'll destroy their civilization and take their women. The slave-catchers are implying Political Imperialism because they are taking workers from other villages and making them their own against their will. If they speak against it they get punished. It's very much like the annexation of hawaii because these slave-catchers came and took whatever they had and the citizens (well slaves) couldn't do anything against their power and didn't try to because the fear of being killed in the attempt.

Later on in the movie the slave-catchers take the slaves to their city and force them to work with no pay or benefits. And if you were selected by their "God" You'd be sacrificed for rain. You had no say in the matter it was either work or die. This resembles economic imperialism because, well you don't have to pay slaves anything. They work for their lives as bad as that sounds it's true it happens and probably is still happening in this word as it is. Politically if I was a ruler I wouldn't want to waste my money on paying workers, I rather use that money on weapons or food or just military and science advancement, i'm not trying to say slave work is the way to go but if I was a dictator with a Dr. Evil Complex that would be the way i'd go.

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