Colonialism and English
History Of Britain - 11. The Wrong Empire 1750-1800. The series is the exhilarating and terrible story of how the British Empire came into being through its… www.myvideo.ge Colonialism does not occupy a single time frame or set of events or practices. In many situations it is discussed as the representatives of one country taking over, occupying or imposing ideas over another nation or group of people. Such a situation has been part of human history for a very long time. The earliest period of modern European colonial expansion was undertaken by the Portuguese and Spanish (1400–1500s), closely followed by the Dutch and the English. The great rival of England for colonial power was France and throughout the history of the British Empire it has been France that has been the foil or enemy in so many battles and discoveries. Other European countries did not expand colonially or create colonies until later, such as Italy and Germany, which both took possession...