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= Colonialism's role in cultural Diffusion was to spread ideas, religions, and languages by European people all around the world. =

What is colonialism?


 * colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. Colonialism is a process whereby sovereignty over the colony is claimed by the metropole and the social structure, government, and economics of the colony are changed by colonists.
 * colonialism is a set of unequal relationships: between the metropole and the colony, and between the colonists and the indigenous population.
 * When did it happen? the colonial period normally refers to a period of history fron the late 15th. to the 20th. century.
 * how did it happen? when european nation states established colonies on other continents.
 * Where did it happen? Colonialsm happened mainly in Europe when many cities started the Age of Discovery, some of them discovered new lands across the oceans, these new lands were divided between the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire.
 * [|colonialism]

the people on the right side are obedient, if they decide not to do the work, the people on the left side can kill them or take them to jail.


 * = cultural diffusion. =
 * Cultural Difussion is the spreading of ideas or products such as styles, religions, technologies, languages, fron one culture to another.
 * Cultural Difussion can happen in many ways, like Migrating Populations such as merchants, explorers, soldiers, etc.
 * [|cultural diffusion]

The picture show how American companies spread all around the world.
 * = CONNECTION: =

and those people make Cultural Diffusion happen because they spread their culture.
 * Colonialism and Cultural Diffusion are related because colonialism is the expansion of territories by people from another country,