colonizations
Establishing foreign territories
Colonizations is the plural of colonization—the process of establishing control over a foreign territory and its people.
The word covers both historical conquest European colonizations of Africa and Asia and figurative takeovers: the colonization of public discourse by corporate interests, or the colonization of a host by parasites.
Vast colonial domain
- Spanish EmpireHistorical Iberian colonial power
- Dutch East India CompanyHistoric colonial trading corporation
- East India CompanyBritish colonial trading corporation
- New WorldWestern Hemisphere landmasses
Victorian era · mercantilism · plantations · slave trade · indentured servitude · missionaries · colonists · American Revolution
Increase in scope
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- frontierEdge of settlement
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- outpostRemote military station
settlement · incorporation · annexation · encroachment · occupation · displacement · partition · land grab
Extending dominion over others
- empireDomain under unified control
- hegemonyDominant group's control
- subjugationForcing into submission
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
exploitation · annexation · sovereignty · protectorate · mandate · suzerainty · viceroy · occupation
Freedom from external control
- liberationRelease from constraint
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
nationalism · self-determination · repatriation · sovereignty · anticolonial · postcolonial · reparations · indigenous rights
British Empire
Vast colonial domain
- Spanish EmpireHistorical Iberian colonial power
- Dutch East India CompanyHistoric colonial trading corporation
- East India CompanyBritish colonial trading corporation
New World · Victorian era · mercantilism · plantations · slave trade · indentured servitude · missionaries · colonists · American Revolution · fur trade
expansion
Increase in scope
outpost · settlement · incorporation · annexation · encroachment · occupation · displacement · partition · land grab · appropriation
imperialism
Extending dominion over others
- empireDomain under unified control
- hegemonyDominant group's control
- subjugationForcing into submission
oppression · exploitation · annexation · sovereignty · protectorate · mandate · suzerainty · viceroy · occupation · dominion
independence
Freedom from external control
- liberationRelease from constraint
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
revolt · nationalism · self-determination · repatriation · sovereignty · anticolonial · postcolonial · reparations · indigenous rights · reclamation
colonizationsdecolonizations
Processes ending colonial rule
independence movements · liberations · emancipations · independences · autonomy
colonizationswithdrawals
Removal of deposited funds
repatriations · evacuations · retreats · departures · exoduses
colonizationsdecolonizations
Processes ending colonial rule
withdrawals · relinquishments · divestitures · abandonments · retreats
- space colonizationSettling beyond Earth
- British colonizationEngland's historic overseas conquest
- European colonizationForeign powers seizing territories
- Mars colonizationInhabiting another world
- Spanish colonizationIberia's global territorial acquisition
- French colonizationOverseas territorial acquisition by Paris