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Colonialism In Australia
By definition, colonialism is the establishment of a colony in one territory by a political power from another territory. This could mean the expansion or the exploitation of the colony, as this has occurred primarily between the colonists and the indigenous peoples. The expansion of land was taken often from one that was both technologically inferior and unable to mount any sort of significant organized and armed resistance. Colonizers are convinced of their own superiority and their ordained mandate to rule, that they reject cultural compromises with the colonized population. The term ‘colonialism’ was used to describe the process of European settlement and political control over the rest of the world, including the Americas, Australia, and

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