Concept
Colonisation of Africa
Overview
ancient and modern colonialism in Africa
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The colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society. The colonies carry out with them a knowledge of agriculture and of other useful arts, superior to what can grow up of its own accord, in the course of many centuries, among…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Close in meaning to Colonisation of Africa; the term itself is not named.
We know of the latter only through linguistic traces in Babylonian inscriptions, of which, however, the religious parts, especially, show that the Sumerians exercised a great influence upon later civilization. Similarly, the settlement of the Greeks, Romans, and Germans in the territory which they eventually occupied, followed upon great earlier migrations to these regions. The people that finally formed the Greek…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Colonisation of Africa; the term itself is not named.
In the middle stage of barbarism we find that the possession of cattle gave a regular surplus to the nomadic nations with sufficiently large herds. At the same time there was a division of labor between nomadic nations and backward nations without herds. The existence of two different stages of production side by side furnished the conditions necessary for a regular exchange.
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Close in meaning to Colonisation of Africa; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Julius Caesar
- Byzantine Empire
- Postcolonialism
- Mediterranean Sea
- North Africa
- Portuguese Empire
- Roman Empire
- Swahili
- Tunisia
- Spanish Empire
- Alexandria
- World War II
- Phoenicia
- British Empire
- Ancient Rome
- Carthage
- Ancient Greece
- Colonialism
- Alexander the Great
- Egypt
- Cyrene, Libya
- Naucratis
- Colonies in antiquity
Place in the tradition
Part of Africana philosophy.