European colonialism
Overseas territorial domination
European colonialism refers to the practice of European nations establishing control over territories in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania from roughly the 15th through 20th centuries.
The term encompasses both the political domination and the economic exploitation of colonized peoples, along with lasting cultural impositions.
European colonialism reshaped global trade patterns.
The phrase often carries critical connotations, emphasizing the violence and extraction that characterized these systems.
- Bandung Conference1955 Afro-Asian diplomatic gathering
- EurocentrismBias toward Western perspectives
- MercantilismColonial wealth-hoarding economic doctrine
- trade routesPaths for exchanging goods
- Scramble for AfricaRapid European colonization period
stolen artifacts · Berlin Conference · divide and rule · Enlightenment · Columbian Exchange · native lands · white man's burden · civilizing mission · Industrial Revolution
European colonialismself-determination
Control over one's fate
national sovereignty · independence · self-governance · indigenous sovereignty · autonomy
European colonialismdecolonization
Ending imperial control
anticolonialism · anti-colonialism · independence movements · national liberation · postcolonialism
European colonialismfree trade
Unrestricted international exchange
fair trade · economic independence · mutual cooperation · autarky
Europe, European, Europeans, Europeanization, colony, colonial, colonials, colonialist, colonialists