Our second session looked at the extensive system of colonization that followed in this period. Spain, Portugal then England, France and Holland all explored and colonized Asia and the Americas. Colonization mostly benefitted the colonizers as many abuses of the native peoples occurred in every country that experienced European conquest or settlement. The final vestiges of colonization were finally eradicated in the 1970s. This enormously long engagement between Europe and the rest of the world has resulted in some of the suspicion, even anger, with which some former colonies regard their former European rulers.
Videos helped tell the stories of these events.
Meg Dillon