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Hernán Cortés and a small group of Spanish soldiers conquered Mexico in 1521, just two years after they landed near the modern-day city of Veracruz. The swift conquest of Mexico was made possible by the armies of native Mexicans, enemies of the Aztec, that Cortés enlisted as his allies. -
British imperialism used Australia as a penal colony with an added semi-peasant economy. In its early days the British imperialist idea was to develop Australia as a penal colony with this added semi-peasant economy to maintain the inhabitants. -
In 1511, Malacca fell into the hands of the Portuguese and that was the beginning of the colonial era in Malaya. After that, Malaya fell into the hands of the Dutch in 1641 and British in 1824 through the Anglo–Dutch Treaty. British colonization was the longest compared to others. -
New Zealand as a nation state was born imperial with the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty established a partnership between Māori, the indigenous people, and the British Crown. The Treaty underpins all aspects of modern New Zealand. -
Chinese imperialism refers to the expansion of China's political, economic, and cultural influence beyond the boundaries of the People's Republic of China. -
This is because India served two important functions for Industrial England. First, Britain viewed India as a source of raw materials that could be used to fuel the factories in England. At the time, India economy was largely centered around agriculture, which would then be exported to England. -
The French colonisation of Vietnam began in earnest in the 1880s and lasted six decades. The French justified their imperialism with a 'civilising mission', a pledge to develop backward nations. 2. In reality, French colonialism was chiefly driven by economic interests. -
Imperialism had a massive and negative impact on Egypt as can be seen through the lack of freedom that resulted from British colonisation of the nation, (Lutsky, n.d.). Additionally, many Egyptians died due to exploitation and the occurrence of revolutionary activity as a result of imperialism. -
The U.S. denied the people who lived in these lands the rights of full citizenship. Instead, it waged wars, conducted dangerous medical experiments on these populations, and imposed economic, political, and social systems to benefit U.S. economic interests. This included restructuring the Philippines government. -
America's imperial era in Cuba lasted only about 30 years. Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office in 1933 wanting to end America's experiment with imperialism, and began unwinding US control over Cuba and the Philippines.