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What is colonialism and what was its role in the diffusion of the european culture throughout the world?

Europe exported its concepts of state, sovereignty, and the desire for nation-states to much of the rest of the world through two waves of colonialism. in the sixteenth century, spain and portugal took advantage of an incresingly well consolidated internal polliticalorder and new found wealth to expand their influence to increasingly far-flung realms during the first wave of colonialism.google.com

Later joined by britain, france, the netherlands, and belgium, the first wave of clonialism established a far-reaching capitalist system.

﻿colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another one of the difficulties in defining colonialism is that it is difficult to distinguish it from imperialism. frequently the two concepts are treated as synonyms. like colonialism, imperialism also involves political and economic control over a dependent territory.

 European concepts of state-www.google.com ﻿sovereignty-  Europe's desire for nation-states-