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Originally Posted by roachboy
for example, the rush of european countries to set up colonies in africa was arguably a result of pressures for raw materials created by shifts in the scale of regions of capitalist production. so the entirety of the colonial period in africa--that of direct physical domination--which gets underway after 1870--is a result of capitalism.
colonialism, and all its brutality, could get chocked up to capitalism.
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or, lets set the start to the late 1400's to mid 1500's when the economic conquest and colonialization of North America began with Christopher Columbus, John Cabot & Jacques Cartier.