Ronvay+Barrientes

=﻿ **//¤COLONIALISM & CULTURAL DIFFUSION¤//** = =**What is colonialism and what was its role in the diffusion of European culture throughout the world?** = =The taking over of other nations, other territories, and native peoples to show them the european culture and learn from the natives culture's.= = = = = =. Typical aspects of colonialism include racial and cultural of the european's thinking they are better then the native people, so they try ruling and subject people.If They take over other countrys they can have more land, power over there population, also get the people to build you things to sell for money. Many commentators see colonialism as a key cause of uneven development.The policy and practice of a strong power extending its control territorially over a weaker nation or people. Originally the Latin colonial simply meant a country estate. But already in classical Latin it acquired the meaning of such an estate deliberately settled among foreigners. This sort of colonization was commonplace in the classical Mediterranean and in medieval Europe.It is usually used pejoratively to denote an unwarranted sense of racial superiority and the set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that sprang from this sense.=