Colonialism

Africa was colonized by seven European powers. These powers included France, Britain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and Spain. The European powers were drawn to Africa due to the continent's abun…

In The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King, Mara shows how colonizers have negatively impacted Indigenous communities. Mara is a young woman who lived on the reserve with her grandmother and mother in S…

Following England's rise to power, its colonization of North America became inevitable. Much of the land had been untouched, allowing the English to easily seize territory for its growing empire. With…

At a time when the British expected the Americans to surrender upon their motherland's firm demand, they received social unrest and a unified response to taxation without representation. This encourag…

In April of 1607, three ships carrying 107 English settlers landed in the Americas and settled on a marshy island nearly 50 miles inland from the Chesapeake Bay and named it Jamestown. And by the earl…

Although some people may argue the American colonists were not justified with breaking away from The American colonists were justified in breaking up with Britain because Britain had been violating th…

Eurocentrism is a subset of the wide-ranging phenomenon of ethnocentrism. The ideology that one's own ethnic group or society is superior to others is commonly known as ethnocentrism. This said group …

Colonial America was a broad land settled by Spanish, English, French, and Dutch immigrants with plans to make it their New World. Europeans sought new trade routes to the Indian Ocean and Asia. Saili…

The biggest question everyone ponders about the Revolutionary War is how the events could have played out differently. Of some 10.5 million people combined from both Great Britain and the 13 colonies …

In colonial Mexico, the ideals of becoming a man were viewed in many ways. However, depending on which hierarchy of economic class a man came from, they had different expectations as adults. There was…