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Colonialism was a mistake


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Colonialism was a mistake
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It certainly was, and?
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>>1289445
The world literally never looked like that.
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"Colonialism was a mistake."

-Cecil Rhodes
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>>1289445

Certainly wasn't.
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>>1289445
What's the problem? It made europe richer and brought civilization to niggers.
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>>1289445
Giving independence to the colonies was the mistake.
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That map makes no sense at all.
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>>1289919
This
>>1289445
What the fuck is this shitty alt-hist map even supposed to be?
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>>1289445
This map is so wrong I can't even
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>>1289445
>18th century
>German Empire
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>>1289919
It was gonna happen no matter what.
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>>1289445
How was it a mistake?
>Cause people were mean!!!!1
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>>1289445
This map was a mistake.
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>>1289918
But it killed some of them and needless to say hurt LOTS of feelings.
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>France in the US
>not in Québec
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thats a big ottoman empire
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Tell me the European nations that didn't colonize, /his/.
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>>1292804
Swissland.
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>>1292809
There must be more than Switzerland.
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>>1292817
Most of Eastern Europe.
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>>1292817
Liechtenstein
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>>1292830
>>1292839
More. MORE.
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>>1292848
The Balkans.
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>>1292849
Mooooooooooore.
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>>1289445
>German "empire"
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>>1292857
Andorra
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>>1292875
MORE MORE MORE
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>>1292879
san marino
Luxembourg
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>>1292879
Ukraine, Estonia, Bulgaria, Malta, Finland, and Albania
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>>1292900
Please sir, may I have some more?
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>>1292906
Surely there must be more than this.
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>>1292913
Serbia, Greece, Georgia, Azerijibajan?
Belarus
Lithuania
Ireland
Scotland
Iceland
Catalonia
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>>1292927
Are you sure you listed all of them?
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>>1292940
Slovakia
Croatia
Moldova
Montenegro
Czechia
Slovenia
Latvia
Austria
Poland
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Hungary
Macedonia
Armenia, unless you count the Kardashians
Kosovo
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>>1291970
>Browses /his/
>Doesn't care when a massive amount of very alien history is destroyed
Piss off
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>>1289445

>World map 18th century

Well its good to know that for a whole 100 years there was never any change in borders.

Loving that ebin gross germaniums
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>>1292970
Lavia actually sid have colonies in trinidad and tobago
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>>1292970
I think sweden had a colony.
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>>1292927
Scotland had a colony and failed.
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>>1289445
colonisation of Africa was a mistake but decolonisation was a bigger mistake

Colonisation of the Americas, Australia and Asia worked out fine in the long run
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>>1289445
>>>korean Empire

what the fuck lmao
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Colonisation was only a mistake in the sense that it gave way to the current trend of overwhelming mass migration
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>>1293695
an empire in name only, but it existed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Empire
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>>1292927
Azerbaijan is a colony.
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>>1292970
>Norway
Norway originally colonized Greenland
>Denmark
Denmark had quite a few colonies. The American Virgin Islands were once Danish as well as a little bit of the gold coast and India at one time.
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