postconquest
Following military victory
Postconquest describes the period or conditions following a conquest, typically a military takeover of territory or subjugation of a people.
The term appears most often in discussions of colonialism: postconquest Mexico, postconquest indigenous communities.
It emphasizes the lasting effects of conquest on culture, governance, and social structures rather than the conquest itself.
Results following an event
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- stratificationDivision into distinct levels
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
commemoration · historiography · decolonization · reconciliation · intergenerational
Supreme authority held
- subjugationForcing into submission
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- occupationOne's regular paid work
hegemony · vassalage · enslavement · pacification · plunder · tribute · dispossession · coercion
Adopting another group's customs
- syncretismFusion of different beliefs
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- transformationThorough change in form
- indigenizationAdapting to native practices
reinterpretation · reconstruction · revival · renewal · reinvention · recovery · creolization · hybridization
Resolved dispute or colony
- colonistsSettlers in new territory
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
expansion · encomienda · hacienda · missionaries · governance · plantation · annexation · outpost
Defiance of established power
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
guerrilla · independence · liberation · reclamation · autonomy · sovereignty · nativism · revitalization
Wedding between different groups
- mestizoBiracial Latin American
- blendingCombining into uniformity
- fusionJoining into unity
- amalgamationUniting into one
coexistence · pluralism · multiculturalism · intermixing · miscegenation · creole · confluence · intercultural
aftermath
Results following an event
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- stratificationDivision into distinct levels
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
restitution · commemoration · historiography · decolonization · reconciliation · intergenerational
domination
Supreme authority held
- subjugationForcing into submission
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
occupation · hegemony · vassalage · enslavement · pacification · plunder · tribute · dispossession · coercion · oppression
acculturation
Adopting another group's customs
- syncretismFusion of different beliefs
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- transformationThorough change in form
indigenization · reinterpretation · reconstruction · revival · renewal · reinvention · recovery · creolization · hybridization · negotiation
settlement
Resolved dispute or colony
- colonistsSettlers in new territory
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
territory · expansion · encomienda · hacienda · missionaries · governance · plantation · annexation · outpost · mercantilism
rebellion
Defiance of established power
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
insurgency · guerrilla · independence · liberation · reclamation · autonomy · sovereignty · nativism · revitalization · countermovement
intermarriage
Wedding between different groups
amalgamation · coexistence · pluralism · multiculturalism · intermixing · miscegenation · creole · confluence · intercultural · bilingualism
postconquestpreconquest
Before military takeover
preinvasion · precolonial · pre-colonial · pre-Columbian · unconquered
conquer, conquest, conquered, conquering, conqueror, unconquerable, postwar, postmodern, reconquer