Cartoons/Images:
This cartoon shows Britain showing Britain just taking up colonies and it is showing some of the colonies that Britain had.
A cartoon of a colonist coming to take a colony
This map shows which countries in Asia and Africa were colonized, and who they were colonized by. This map was from 1914
A picture of a colonizer and a colony
Brief History of Colonialism:
- First started with the ancient Greek and Romans. Colonization meant the foundation of a new settlement, they hardly used violence. Colonia which is derived from Latin means a place for agriculture activities. These people had only settler colonies
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15th century: The age of discovery started with the Portugal conquest of Ceuta. Colonialism was led by the Portuguese and the Spanish in the exploration of the new world (the Americas) and the coast of Asia and Africa
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17th century: England, France, the Netherlands and other European countries had finally established their overseas empires.
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Late 18th – early 19th century: first era of decolonization. America gaining independence from colonizers. Spanish and Portuguese Empire weakening. Other European countries trying to get colonies in Asia and Africa.
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19th century: Industrialism and the growing economies led to imperialism and European countries fighting for colonies in Africa. The winners of World War I distributed the loser’s colonies among themselves.
- After World War II: Decolonization, most colonies gained independence but still are influenced by the colonizers, this is called Neocolonialism.
Ian Smith:
Ian Smith (born 1919) is a British man who was the Prime Minister of South Rhodesia one of the UK’s exploitation colonies which turned into a settler colony. He tried to gain independence for South Rhodesia and when that was declined he set up a party for election. He was in the Zimbabwe parliament until 1984 and lived comfortably in Zimbabwe.
My Opinion
Colonialism has influenced history in many ways. Colonialism makes people lose their homes and their property, it causes unrest and wars, the colonized country becomes more developed and it also makes the colonizer more powerful. When a mother country sends a lot of people to go live in a colony they are also pushing other people out. They think that they are dominant and the natives who have lived their whole lives there just have to move and make space for them. They get all the riches and the land and the natives are just moved to wherever that they don’t want. When they need even more land and resources the natives get moved again. Colonialism also caused a lot of unrest with the people they were ruling; the people don’t like having to listen to another country’s orders. They fight, have wars and riots and will do anything to gain independence for their country. Colonialism also causes the colony to become more developed and westernized. The colonizer influences the colony’s trade, cultures, language and lifestyle. When the colonizer leaves mostly they keep up that lifestyle because they are used to it already. Some people who were born during the time when it was a colony wouldn’t even know life before the colonizer. A colony makes a colonizer more powerful, it gives the colonizer resources, laborers and the control of trade. Colonizers might find many resources in their colony and taking it for themselves instead of leaving it for the people who they belong to. The amount of colonies a country had represented the amount of power that they had. This is because if you invaded and are able to control a lot of colonies that means your country must be strong.
I think that colonialism is bad because it doesn’t let the people of the country make their own decisions. It also looks upon those countries as if they were just something to take instead of a country. Mostly colonialism is bad for the colony but there are some things that are good.
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