colonialists
Foreign territory claimers
Colonialists are people who support or participate in colonialism—the policy of establishing control over foreign territories and peoples.
The term typically describes Europeans who settled in or administered colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas: The colonialists imposed their language and customs on the indigenous population.
In contemporary use, colonialist often carries critical weight, implying exploitation or cultural domination.
Forcing into submission
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- hegemonyDominant group's control
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
supremacy · coercion · repression · enslavement · subordination · control · dominance · despotism
Spanish colonial soldiers
- missionariesReligious workers abroad
- mercantilismTrade policy favoring exports
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
- slaveryOwnership of people
encomienda · triangular trade · Age of Discovery · East India Company · Middle Passage · scramble for Africa · Berlin Conference · Opium Wars
Defeating and seizing control
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- incursionHostile territorial penetration
encroachment · appropriation · acquisition · settlement · outposts · frontier · exploration · expedition
First to explore territory
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- plantersVessels for cultivating vegetation
- emigrantsPeople leaving their country
- pilgrimsReligious journey takers
Jamestown · Plymouth · Mayflower · land grants · reservations · displacement · Boers · hacienda
Domain under unified control
- viceroyRoyal colonial governor
- governor-generalMonarch's appointed representative
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
British Empire · Dutch East India Company · French Empire · Spanish Empire · Belgian Congo · dominion · raj · metropole
Defiance of established power
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- independenceFreedom from external control
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- liberationRelease from constraint
nationalism · insurgency · guerrilla · Haitian Revolution · Gandhi · self-determination · sovereignty · repatriation
subjugation
Forcing into submission
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- hegemonyDominant group's control
tyranny · supremacy · coercion · repression · enslavement · subordination · control · dominance · despotism · authoritarianism
conquistadors
Spanish colonial soldiers
- missionariesReligious workers abroad
- mercantilismTrade policy favoring exports
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
slavery · encomienda · triangular trade · Age of Discovery · East India Company · Middle Passage · scramble for Africa · Berlin Conference · Opium Wars · Boer War
conquest
Defeating and seizing control
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
incursion · encroachment · appropriation · acquisition · settlement · outposts · frontier · exploration · expedition · partition
pioneers
First to explore territory
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- plantersVessels for cultivating vegetation
- emigrantsPeople leaving their country
pilgrims · Jamestown · Plymouth · Mayflower · land grants · reservations · displacement · Boers · hacienda · enclosure
empire
Domain under unified control
- viceroyRoyal colonial governor
- governor-generalMonarch's appointed representative
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
sovereignty · British Empire · Dutch East India Company · French Empire · Spanish Empire · Belgian Congo · dominion · raj · metropole · tribute
rebellion
Defiance of established power
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- independenceFreedom from external control
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
liberation · nationalism · insurgency · guerrilla · Haitian Revolution · Gandhi · self-determination · sovereignty · repatriation · reparations
colonialistsindigenous peoples
Original inhabitants of lands
natives · native peoples · aboriginals · First Nations · original inhabitants
colonialistsanti-colonialists
Opponents of imperial domination
independence fighters · freedom fighters · liberation movements · anti-imperialists · nationalists
- British colonialismUK's historical empire-building
- European colonialismWestern domination of foreign territories
- French colonialismOverseas rule from Paris
- African colonialismForeign rule over a continent
- settler colonialismOccupation displacing native peoples
- British colonialistsUK subjects colonizing abroad
colonialism, colonialist, neocolonialism, anticolonialism, anticolonialist, postcolonialism