colonial power
Overseas territory holder
A colonial power is a nation that establishes and maintains control over territories outside its borders, typically through settlement, economic exploitation, and political domination.
Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal were major colonial powers from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries.
The term often carries critical connotations, implying extraction of resources and suppression of indigenous peoples: The colonial powers carved up Africa with little regard for existing cultures.
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- white man's burdenImperialist ideology disguising exploitation
- civilizing missionClaimed duty to "improve" peoples
conquest · orientalism · empire · subjugation · divide and rule · supremacy · indigenous rights · East India Company · trading post · domination · exploitation · tributary · hegemony · British Empire · mother country · annexation · gunboat diplomacy · resource extraction
- colonialismBritish Empire, colonizers, protectorate, colonists, settlers
- exploitersexploiter, predator, parasite, user, leech
colonial powercolony
Dependent territorial settlement
protectorate · vassal state · satellite state · puppet state · sovereign nation
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