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Portugal began establishing the first global trade network and one of the first colonial empires [6] [7] under the leadership of Henry the Navigator.The empire spread throughout a vast number of territories distributed across the globe (especially at one time in the 16th century) that are now parts of 60 different sovereign states.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... This is a list of territories and polities that have been considered colonies. Colonies of European countries
Today it is the primary language of up to 460 million people and is spoken by about 1.5 billion as a first, second or foreign language. [269] It has also significantly influenced other languages. [270] Individual and team sports developed in Britain, particularly football, cricket, lawn tennis, and golf were exported. [271]
In our interconnected world of smart phones and social media, it is often hard to imagine that people can disconnect completely. However, isolated tribes exist all over the planet.
Small Danish colonies of Tharangambadi, Serampore and the Nicobar Islands from 1620 to 1869 were known as Danish India. Indonesia was a colony of the Netherlands gained full independence in 1949. [6] Jamaica was part of the Spanish West Indies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It became an English colony in 1655 and; independence in 1962.
It was composed of several colonies: Acadia, Canada, Newfoundland, Louisiana, Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island), and Île Saint Jean (present-day Prince Edward Island). These colonies came under British or Spanish control after the French and Indian War, though France briefly re-acquired a portion of Louisiana in 1800. The United ...
While some people have expressed sorrow and nostalgia for the loss of Queen Elizabeth II, others are still stung by the colonial past of the British Empire. In former British colonies, the queen ...
Danish overseas colonies and Dano-Norwegian colonies (Danish: De danske kolonier) were the colonies that Denmark–Norway (Denmark after 1814) possessed from 1537 until 1953. At its apex, the colonies spanned four continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.