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Showing up uninvited, redrawing the map, and calling it civilization.
means A policy of one nation seizing control over another territory, extracting its resources, and dominating its people.
from From Latin colonia, a settled farm or estate, via colonus, a farmer or tenant — agriculture's vocabulary repurposed for empire, planting flags instead of crops.
Map scarsMany straight national borders were drawn by distant Europeans.
Word launderingEmpires preferred protectorate, mandate, anything but conquest.
Long tailEconomic effects outlast the flags by generations.