The policy of one country extending political, economic, or military control over another.

A region granted to a company for economic gain.

Using military force enslaving indigenous people, and claiming their land is a motive.

Between 1650s and 1900s anywhere from 12 million and 28 million Africans were put on ships, taken across the Atlantic Ocean.

Unprocessed natural resources such as logs or iron ore.

The Belief that European concerns, cultures, and values are superior to those of others.

Restricting indigenous people to reserve the order to control them.

A route used by European countries to exchange goods across the Atlantic Ocean.

A territory claimed and ruled by another country; in many instances, people travelled from ruling country to create settlements in colonies.

The exchange of raw materials, goods, and services among distant groups of people.

Sending missionaries to convert indigenous people.

Europeans would export manufactured goods to Africa, goods were exchanged for africans and then sold for huge profits.

An area that ruled itself but was guided by another, more powerful country.

Stories set in specific time and place in history, sometimes using historical characters.

Using education to assimilate indigenous people and creating laws to promote European ways.

When traders brought the materials produced by the africans in America and shipped them back to Europe.

A region in which an outside country influences or controls political or economic events for its own gain; this may have an impact on the culture of the region.

A Eurocentric economic policy whereby European monarchs increased their wealth through international trade.

Eurocentrism became so extreme that some Europeans felt the Indigenous people were a little more than they are.

Later on it led to slave trade.