COLONIALISM

Definition: a process of resource extraction for the benefit of the group doing the colonizing. It is the maintenance of political, social, economic and cultural domination over people by a foreign power for an extended period. Colonies exist to benefit the colonizer. Political, social and cultural colonization are to benefit the economic exploitation of the indigenous group.

Social stratification results, very basically: colonizers

indigenous peoples

Groups to go to a foreign place as part of the process of colonization:

missionaries - religion - (cultural)
traders - commerce - (economic)
soldiers - control - (political)
farmers - land - (economic)
treasure hunters - mineral wealth - (economic)

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