2. Essential Questions
Were exploration and colonization positive or
negative for the development of the world?
How did the colonists interact with the natives?
How did the “mother countries” interact with each
other?
What are some of the long-term effects of
colonization?
How did the mother countries choose locations to
colonize?
3. What is coloniztion?
Colonization is the practice of a country
installing a settlement of it’s own people on foreign
land
It has political control of an area
Colonization means the same as
Imperialism, where one country has political or
economic control over another.
4. Why Colonize?
Most European countries believed in
Mercantilism: that the wealth of a country is
measured by the amount of precious metals they have…
like GOLD!
To make more profit in colonies $$$
To get natural resources (wood, fish, sugar, tobacco)
To promote trade
To search for GOLD !!
To create manufactured goods for sale
5. How Did They Do It?
Set up a trading fort or an invasion army
The mother countries had better technology and
weapons, like armor, metal swords, muskets, and
cannons.
They forced the natives into slave labor or imported
slaves
They imposed taxes on the natives
They stole land from the natives
6. Organization of Colonies
Mother Countries helped establish:
transportation, medical services, and
communications
This gave them more control over the
natives
Natives not trained in leadership.
They were purposefully kept
uneducated, and therefore,
dependent upon the mother country.
7. How the money was
made…
Colonies Mother
collect raw Country sells
Mother Country the
materials
manufactures manufactured
and send
the raw goods back to
home to the colonies
materials
Mother (and other
Country countries)
