What do you mean by colony in history class? What do you mean by colony? What do you mean by colony?

1. Colonies refer to countries and regions that are economically exploited by suzerain and politically enslaved by suzerain. The original meaning refers to the resettlement on the wasteland, which can be used as a trade outpost or a military base. Later, it generally refers to the immigrant settlements established by a country in the areas it conquered to obtain new resources for the suzerain country.

2. Colonization means that a powerful country immigrates to the area it conquered and plunders all the interests of the original local people. Now it generally refers to capitalist countries expanding their economic and political power to underdeveloped countries or regions and plundering and enslaving local people.