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  2. Colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    Before the expansion of early modern European powers, other empires had conquered and colonized territories, such as the Roman Empire in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. Modern colonial empires first emerged with a race of exploration between the then most advanced European maritime powers, Portugal and Spain, during the 15th century. [2]

  3. European colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Artefacts on display included rare surviving Native and European artefacts, maps, documents, and ceremonial objects from museums and royal collections on both sides of the Atlantic. The exhibition opened in Richmond, Virginia on March 17, 2007, and closed at the Smithsonian International Gallery on October 31, 2009.

  4. Analysis of European colonialism and colonization - Wikipedia

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    Évolués in the Belgian Congo studying medicine.. Western European colonialism and colonization was the Western European policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over other societies and territories, founding a colony, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

  5. List of former European colonies - Wikipedia

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    British America (New Britain) . Canada. Island of St. John; Rupert's Land (A private estate stretching from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains, and from the prairies to the Arctic Circle.

  6. Territorial evolution of the British Empire - Wikipedia

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    A Crown colony: a type of colonial administration of the English and later the British Empire, whose legislature and administration was controlled by the Crown. [6] [7] Lord Ranfurly reads the Cook Islands annexation proclamation to Queen Makea on 7 October 1900. Crown colonies were ruled by a governor appointed by the monarch.

  7. British Empire - Wikipedia

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    At the same time, anti-colonial movements were on the rise in the colonies of European nations. The situation was complicated further by the increasing Cold War rivalry of the United States and the Soviet Union. In principle, both nations were opposed to European colonialism. [193]

  8. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    French colonialists viewed non-European societies as uncivilized, and their colonial subjects as needing European re-education. [94] Racial darwinists like Arthur de Gobineau , justified this ideology by falsely claiming that people of color were biologically inferior to white people.

  9. List of colonies - Wikipedia

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    Map of the European Union in the world, with Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost Regions. Danish Gold Coast; Danish India; Danish West Indies Frederiksstad on Saint Croix, Danish West Indies, 1848; Faroe Islands; Greenland