AHL 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Settler Colonialism, Coruscant, New Imperialism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Interdisciplinary Study in Arts
• Course: AHL 1100
• Professor: Jan Grabowski, Eric Allina, Meredith Terretta

Document Summary

In general, navigation was motivated by the search for markets to trade and lands to colonize access extraction economy. Navigational mapping coincides with the search for long navigational routes, especially from. Systematic mapping of the interior coincides with the search for exploitative resources, such as gold, salt, and people. Colonialism is the system of domination resulting from the notion of expanding societies beyond its original habitat. There are three types of colonies: exploitation, maritime enclaves, and settlement (which includes agrarian settlement, settler minority, and. Osterhammel defines colonialism as the relationship of domination between an indigenous (or forcefully imported) majority and a minority of foreign invaders. Fundamental decisions affecting the lives of colonized people are made and implemented by colonial rulers in pursuit of interests defined by a distant metropolis. Rejecting cultural compromises with colonized population, colonizers are convinced of their own superiority and ordained mandate to rule.