Colonization doesn t have to be a plantation in the Americas. I still don t quite understand. Can yo

Colonial activities refer to the armed conquest of other countries or regions by force, and the economic and political benefits obtained in the conquest activities are specifically manifested in:

1. Directly or indirectly rule the colonies, carry out armed immigration, and impose heavy taxes on the colonial people (this is reflected in the British conquest of India, the Japanese occupation of Korea and the northeast of our country).

2. Direct plundering of colonial wealth (local specialties, ***) Spanish and Portuguese colonization of Latin America and the Caribbean was the case (direct plundering of local abundance ***) Dutch colonization of Southeast Asia (direct plundering of spices).

3 Slaves**, the most typical of which are black slaves**, others include luring Chinese laborers and forcing Indians to serve in mines (Latin America).

4 Commodity dumping, colonial activities provide a closed, exclusive market for the suzerainty (colonial 0, convenient for commodity dumping.

5. Compulsory production, according to the needs of the suzerain, the cultivation of only one or a few cash crops in a colony or a region (such as sugar production in the West Indies, coffee, cocoa and tobacco cultivation in South America, spice cultivation in Southeast Asia, rubber cultivation in South-West Africa: rubber cultivation in the Belgian Congo).

The plantation economy to which you refer is only a concrete manifestation of forced production, which is a small part of colonial activity.

In the early days of colonial activities, it was to control the conquered areas and obtain economic benefits from them.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus rediscovered America.

It aroused the attention of Europeans to this so-called "new continent". After the successful colonization of the Americas, in the late 16th century, the Spaniards established a colony in the Philippines in South Asia, and some American crops began to be introduced to the Philippines, and then from the Philippines to various parts of the South Seas, and further to China. The introduction and spread of crops in the Americas became a significant feature of the introduction of crops in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

There are nearly 30 kinds of American crops introduced to China, including corn, sweet potato, jicama, potato, cassava, pumpkin, peanut, sunflower, pepper, tomato, bean, lima bean, apple, pineapple, custard, guava, avocado, cashew nut, cocoa, American ginseng, papaya, upland cotton, tobacco, etc.

Since the birth of Chinese civilization, the Chinese nation has had long-term and large-scale exchanges and interactions with other ethnic groups, and many achievements of Chinese civilization have been introduced to the world at the same time, many achievements of other civilizations in the world have also been introduced to China.

A colony (formerly known as a plant) is an area ruled by a suzerain, without political, economic, military, or diplomatic independence, and under the complete control of the overlord.

Colonies in a broad sense also include semi-colonial countries and protectorate countries that have administrative organs, armies and other state institutions, but are controlled by other countries in one or more aspects of economic, military, and diplomatic affairs, as well as mandates and trust territories, as well as those set up by colonial powers"Overseas Territories"、"Dependencies"、"Overseas Provinces"Wait. After World War II, most of the world's colonies gained independence, and the old world colonial system ceased to exist.

In terms of the nature of colonies, they can be roughly divided into three main types: colonies, resource-grabbing colonies, and commercial colonies, which appeared in sequence with the development of capitalism.

Colonization means:Originally, it referred to the migration of powerful countries to the conquered regions, but later it generally referred to the expansion of their political and economic power abroad.

Colonization was the process by which a great power sought and gained possession of economically and politically and culturally underdeveloped areas abroad.

Beginning in the 15th century, European countries, led by Britain, Portugal, and Spain, acquired large colonies in North and South America, Asia, and islands in various oceans.

Columbus first arrived in Central America, that is, today's Caribbean, so Mexico became a Spanish colony, but Spain's colonial activities in North America were relatively limited, whether it was Spain or Portugal, their activities at that time were purposeful, that is, the pursuit of wealth, especially the plundering of precious metals, and at that time, today's United States and Canada did not have a national civilization that has developed to a certain extent like Central America and South America, but South and Central America, These places have their own civilizations, so the energy of Spain and Portugal was initially focused on today's Latin America (that is, South America and Central America), Spain had Mexico at that time was larger than today, and owned part of today's western United States, in addition, the entire North American region, before the independence of the United States, was the sphere of influence of Britain and France, and Britain and France even fought a war for this, at this point, there was no contradiction between Spain and Britain and France, let alone who could not fight whom, but the foothold was differentAfter all, no one can eat the whole of America.

The Spaniards' discovery of the Americas began in the islands of the Caribbean, and their initial expeditions began in Cuba and Yucatan in Central America and then went all the way south, where the Mayan kingdom and the Aztec empire attracted them like magnets, and the abundance of ** there inspired their fanatical desire for conquest. At this time, North America was relatively barren, and the British colonists who arrived more than 100 years later were only picking up bones that the Spaniards did not want. Don't forget, the three ancient civilizations of the Indians:

The Maya, the Aztecs, and the Incas were all preemptively arrived and destroyed and plundered by the Spaniards.

Moreover, Spain did not colonize North America entirely, Texas, California, New Mexico, Florida and other places were all Spanish colonies. Because of the weakening of the country, it was occupied by France and Britain.

Although Columbus discovered the Americas, the countries he supported only valued luxury and corruption, and failed to use their wealth to develop the economy, while Britain produced luxury goods for the upper class, and Britain did not consume or consumed very little, and they used the money from the sale of luxury goods to develop the economy, making Britain more powerful than Spain.

Discovery is not the same as possession, and whichever country has the ability can come to colonize. Besides, your question is not right, the Americas have never been colonized by Britain alone, there are France, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and so on.

Britain was the first to start the industrial revolution and the first to complete the capitalist revolution, which made Britain later an empire on which the sun never sets. At that time, Spain and these countries could not beat the British ==