In general, colonialism was a net _____ for the cultures who got colonized
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We have to be a bit careful about attributing wars and slavery to colonialism, especially focusing on colonization by the west. Wars already existed, slavery already existed and was often more brutal with e.g. Arab slave trade in Africa.
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I don’t assume this question only counts West on non-West as colonization!
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I think it probably depends on what the counterfactual is: presumably cultures with no colonialization would still acquire some technology through trade etc.
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I mean, are we neutral about the effect of Roman colonization on Western Europe?
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