When people wanted to colonize, they would send hundreds, or even thousands, of men on boats to travel to different landmarks. When they got their (using compasses and maps), they would tell other people where they had settled. Some people would give the land straight away, but many people would not. If they said no, then a battle would start over who owned the land. Depending on who had the better weapons, depended on who would win. If the British invaded, they would almost always win as they built an empire. After the battle, whoever won would take the land.
There are lots of empires, but some are way better than others. The Inca empire were an empire who took over more than 10% of South America before being defeated by France. The Mongol empire covered the most landmass in history. They cover about half of asia in their terrible reign, and killed 5% of the world’s population. The British Empire had the largest population and even now there is a commonwealth of countries that they colonized.
Different people were treated differently when they were colonised. Some people ran away from the colonisers, others fought them and stayed and could continue their own life. If they lost the fight, however, they would have to live with others ruling over them, and they might have to change like learn another language.
Back in the way, people used to think that colonization was normal. Nowaday, we realize that colonization was usually a brutal thing, and that we shouldn't try to colonize again.
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