GGR240H1 Lecture Notes - Encomienda, Settlement Geography, North West Company
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Imperialism: perhaps best used as a generic term, to refer to a type of geopolitical relationship: The aggressive encroachment of one people upon the territory of another, resulting in the subjugation of the latter people to alien rule. ( the result of this subjugaton is the colonization. You build an empire through the process of colonization. Donald w. meinig, the shaping of america, v. 1 (1986), xviii. The atlantic circuit (one representation ) which is set from the time of columbus, varies passage points. bound by four continents. Big hope of realising this big trade, was to bring a new force of labour to work the land, or the ocean , etc. Colonialism is a story of settlement in north america. The spanish were ahead of all the others. The spanish empire in the americans early 17th century, had the most widest and biggest, riches empire.