What is the significance of colonial expansion?

Colonial expansion means that powerful countries turn backward countries into their own colonies, semi-colonies or dependent countries through various means of aggression.

Colonial expansion of colonial countries;

The colonial rulers plundered a lot of wealth from the colonies, which was transformed into capital in Europe and became one of the main sources of primitive accumulation of capital in Europe, which accelerated the development of capitalism in Europe and provided two important conditions for the coming industrial revolution: capital and market.

Colonial expansion of colonial people:

The brutal slaughter, plunder and enslavement of the colonies by colonialists brought great disasters and disasters to the colonial people, interrupted the historical process of Asia, Africa and Latin America, caused the long-term backwardness of these areas, and greatly expanded the historical process between East and West. At the same time, colonialism also brought advanced modes of production, lifestyles and ideas, which promoted the development and progress of colonial history.

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Consequences of colonial expansion:

The history of colonialism is a history full of meanness, greed and barbarism, and its crimes are numerous.

For European countries, trade slaves made them gain wealth and promoted the development of bourgeois economy;

For the colonized countries, this is an unprecedented disaster, and what the European people have gained is what they have lost.

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