not big. But eventually, the natives successfully contested the colonialists, -or "whites". The natives in such a colony is often an underestimated nation with hidden qualities and aggressiveness, which the colonists should stay away from. Examples of this: Algeria and Southern Rhodesia.
But there are many other types of colonialism, for example
· Pre-existing empires - a nation which has been powerful, but after a meet with a even greater force, the nation becomes a part of the new empire (example: when Spain took over the Inca empire in the 15th century).
· Internal colonialism - a take-over within the nation's borders (example: the American Civil War in the 18th century)
Colonization is as you've already read that strong nations dominated weaker ones to gain more land, economy, religion and so on..
It has been said that there are three primary motives for this phenomenon, it is what I'd like to call "the 3 G's":
Europeans wanted to eliminate all other religions than Christianity and spread their religious beliefs to the non-Christian environment. Protestant and Catholic countries often used religious as a motive for expansion.
Religion was also a motive for the enormous emigration to America in the 18th century when many people got harassed and didn't get to perform their religion as they preferred.
Sometimes colonies were important for strategic reasons, for an example, the Cape of Good Hope at the edge of Africa.
-The history of Colonialism? Yes, it's quite a chunk of information
Imperialism has always existed, but the earliest memories we have of colonialism is from the ancient Greece. In 323 BC, one man had conquered an empire that reached from what is now Macedonia to half of India. The leader was Alexander the Great. Both the Greeks and later the romans took colonies. The Greeks had huge properties in and controlled most of the islands of the Mediterranean sea while about 250 years later th...