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What Europeans? Do you mean UK and France?
by ciupicri 11y ago
What Europeans? Do you mean UK and France?
- zerr 11y agoPretty much every European country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_coloni...
- ciupicri 11y agoI think you meant some Western European countries. Because I don't see Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and probably others on that list. And I definitely don't see Switzerland. Europe doesn't mean the European Union (founders).
- rmxt 11y agoIt would help your comparison if half of those countries existed as independent entities before World War I. The Baltic States and Ukraine were part of Russia when it went through its imperialistic/colonization phase, reaching into Alaska and Mongolia, and Fort Ross as noted on the linked page. The German Empire is conveniently listed as Germany on that page, which leaves out the fact that the German Empire consisted of land that is now part of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Lithuania. Of course, these modern day countries were some times subjugated much in the same way that true colonies were subjugated. That being said, I don't think it's fair to say that Western Europe is solely to blame for world wide colonization.
- expertentipp 11y agoLet me help you. Baltic States, Czech, Poland were the colonies.
- throwaway999777 11y agoNorway: Greenland and Vinland (New Foundland). The thought of those vikings sucking the fertile soil of Greenland dry fills me with guilt.