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The full history of conquest and colonization — every civilization, not just Europe — plus the modern moral debate: the critique (Said, Rodney, Césaire), the defense (Gilley, Biggar, Fynn-Paul), and the debate-prep arsenal.
The framing thesis
“All of history is a history of colonialism. The right of conquest was a universally recognized principle of politics until ~70 years ago.” → Colonialism TP · The empires table below runs from Assyrian Egypt (671 BCE) to the 20th century → colonialism_empires_country_table
Debate Prep
- Colonialism TP — the talking points: history, benefits case, “conquered lands were not Gardens of Eden”
- Heated Debate Slavery, Reparations & Colonialism with Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Kehinde Andrews — the full chronological breakdown: reparations, chattel vs. modern slavery, did slavery power the Industrial Revolution
- Colonialism Blog Post · TODO for Colonialism
- Cross-vault → Colonizers (audited Israel–Palestine terminology and structural test) · Zionists calling themselves 'colonizers' (raw excerpts) · Indigenous
The Big Picture
- Timeline of Colonialism — the master chronology
- colonialism_empires_country_table — region-by-region: who ruled, how long, when decolonized (Assyria → present)
- Conquest Without Europeans — the full non-European record built for argument: Africa · Asia · the opposition case, steelmanned · which numbers are safe to use
- Non-European Colonialism (superseded — chatbot-sourced) · Arab Colonization · Islam Caliphates, Conquering, Colonizing — the non-Western record
- Native American Wars with Each Other Before Europeans Arrive · How the first people arrived in the Americas
- 1000-1620 - European-Indigenous Contact and Disease in North America — Norse to the Mayflower: every documented pre-1620 epidemic with its real mortality estimate, and why the “90% died before Plymouth” claim doesn’t hold
- Explorers — the age of discovery hub
The Moral Debate — books
The defense
- The Case for Colonialism — Gilley: the article, the cancellation, the response to critics (The Case for Colonialism PDF Notes · original PDF (file not included in this release) · response PDF (file not included in this release))
- Colonialism - A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar — the ledger approach (root note · PDF (file not included in this release))
- Not Stolen — Fynn-Paul: Columbus, the genocide question, was it racist (PDF (file not included in this release))
- Videos: Gilley lecture · Biggar · Uncancelled History with Douglas Murray - EP. 07 Age of the Explorers · Giving Thanks for Settler Colonialism - Michael Knowles LIVE at Vanderbilt University
The critique (know the other side)
- Orientalism — Said (file not included in this release) · Culture and Imperialism — Said (file not included in this release)
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa — Rodney (file not included in this release)
- Discourse on Colonialism — Césaire (file not included in this release)
- Tuck Yang — Decolonization is not a metaphor (file not included in this release)
- Cross-vault → The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism · Alex — Capitalism, Imperialism, Palestine, Labor, and Fascism Argument Map (the imperialism steelman)
📖 Full scholarship PDF library
The Rediscovery of America — Blackhawk (file not included in this release) · Settling for Less — McNamee (file not included in this release) · Settler Colonialism in the 20th Century — Elkins (file not included in this release) · Islamic Imperialism — Karsh · Colonialism: A Global History — Veracini (file not included in this release) · American Settler Colonialism — Hixson (file not included in this release) · Colonialism (Key Concepts) (file not included in this release) · Colonialism in Global Perspective — Manjapra (file not included in this release) · Colonialism in Question — Cooper (file not included in this release) · Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism (file not included in this release) · The Making of Europe — Bartlett (file not included in this release) · Dynamics of Global Dominance — Abernethy (file not included in this release) · Imperial Heroes in 21st-C Africa · Comparative Politics of Colonialism (file not included in this release)
People
- Christopher Columbus · Jacques Cartier · more → Explorers
Decolonization
- 19th Century- Decolonization · Decolonization of Asia after WWII
- Decolonialism at Harvard — the modern campus movement
- Decolonize Now A Conversation About Radical Imagination and Justice in IsraelPalestine by Harvard Divinity School Highlights
- Deconstructing Decolonization by Nigel Biggar Course:
Across the vault
- Israel–Palestine: Colonizers · Zionists calling themselves 'colonizers' · Indigenous · Israel Palestine MOC + Timeline
- Islam: Islam Caliphates, Conquering, Colonizing · Arab Slave Trade · Slavery (Islam human-rights note)
- The West: Western World Greatness · The Nature of Capitalism - Peterson Academy (the colonization & property-rights Q&A) · 60.18 Western Civ
- US history: Native Americans · United States · British Colonization of the Americas
- Woke framing: Leftism & Woke (MOC) · Alex — Capitalism, Imperialism, Palestine, Labor, and Fascism Argument Map
By Region — the timeline bank
North America
1000-1500CE - Mississippian Warfare
1428-1521 - Aztec Expansion
1442 - Columbus lands
1500s (early) - Spanish colonies established
1500s (mid-late) - French Canada
1500-1600s - Anishnaabe and Cree push Lakota West to Great Plains
1607 - English Jamestown Colony
1609-1701 - Beaver Wars (Iroquois Wars in Canada)
1706-1780 - Comanche Expansion to Texas, New Mexico & Mexico
1750s - Lakota dominate the Northern Great Plains and expansion
How the first people arrived in the Americas
Native Americans
Native American Wars with Each Other Before Europeans Arrive
British Colonization of the Americas
New France
Central America & Caribbean
1442 - Columbus lands
1500s (early) - Spanish colonies established
1500s (early) - Spain colonies Aztec and Inca
1517-1521 - Spanish Conquest of Aztec
1600s (early) - Britain and France in Caribbean
Native American Wars with Each Other Before Europeans Arrive
Taíno
Hispaniola
South America
1500 - Portugal colonization of Brazil
1500s (early) - Spain colonies Aztec and Inca
15-16th Century - Spain-Portugal to South America
Native American Wars with Each Other Before Europeans Arrive
Europe
1200BC - Phoenicians colonizing Southern Spain, Sardinia, Sicily
8th Century BC - Greeks colonizing Southern Italy and coast of Turkey
227BC - Carthaginians from North Africa colonizing Spain, Sardinia, Sicily
370 CE - Huns raiding Roman territories
711 AD - Moors invading Spain, France, Spain
756-1031 - Umayyad dynasty of Córdoba
827 AD - Aghlabid conquering Rome
793-1066 - Vikings
800-1000 - Magyars
827-902 - Muslim conquest of Sicily
1009–1110 - First Taifa period
1066 - Norman
1085–1234 - Almoravid rule
1207-1340 - Mongol Empire
1232–1492 - Emirate of Granada
1517-1934 - Ottoman Caliphate
History of Europe: Every Year (Video)
Middle East
539-311 BCE - Achaemedid Empire control Middle East
331-30 BCE - Hellenistic (Alexander the Great generals) control Middle East
30-640 CE - Roman and Byzantine control eastern Mediterranean
600CE - Rashidun Caliphate
661-750CE - Umayyad Caliphate
750-1258CE - Abbasid Caliphate
909-1171CE - Fatimid Caliphate
1095-1291 CE - European Crusades control parts of Levant
1207-1335 - Mongols control Persia (Iran, Iraq, parts of Turkey and Caucasus)
1517-1934 - Ottoman Caliphate
1839 - British take control of Yemen port city of Aden
History of the Middle East - Every Year (Video)
Islam Caliphates, Conquering, Colonizing
Moors
Non-European Colonialism
Africa
300AD - Aksumite conquest of Kush
600CE - Rashidun Caliphate
661-750CE - Umayyad Caliphate
750-1258CE - Abbasid Caliphate
909-1171CE - Fatimid Caliphate
1076 - Almoravid conquest of Ghana Empire
1121-1269CE - Almohad Caliphate
1400-1500s - Songhai conflict with Mossi states
1400 (late) - Songhai conquest of Mali Empire
1504 - Funj conquest of Nubia
1517-1934 - Ottoman Caliphate
1698-1730s - Oyo invasions of Dahomey
1814 - British control Cape of Good Hope
1890 - British colonizes Zanzibar
1903 - British control of Nigeria
15-16th Century - Portugal to Africa and Asia
Islam Caliphates, Conquering, Colonizing
19th Century- European powers to Africa
Asia
206 BCE-220 CE - Han Dynasty conquered Xinjiang
618-907 CE - Tang Dynasty controls Xinjiang
900s - Islam conquers Xinjiang
1207-1340 - Mongol Empire
1565 - Spain colonizing Philippines
1600s - Dutch East Indies
1644-1912 - Qing Dynasty controls Xinjiang
17-19th Century- Britain to India, Bengal, Burma, Malaysia
17-18th Century- Netherlands to Southeast Asia
1842 - Britain occupies Hong Kong
1870s - French colonize Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
1819 - British establish Singapore as a trading post
1898 - U.S. takes over Philippines from Spain
1910 - Japan annexes Korea
1931-1945 - Japanese occupation of China
1942 - Japan occupies Singapore
1945 - Britain reoccupies Singapore
1949 - People’s Republic of China takes control of Xinjiang
Decolonization of Asia after WWII
The History of Asia: Every Year (Video)
Handwritten Notebook Topics
- European Colonization of North America - Timeline — arrivals, settlements, conflict, and epidemic disease
North American Colonial Systems
- American Colonies — complete nineteen-chapter source dossier with PDF citations, study sheets, and handwritten reading pages.
- Continental History of Colonial North America — the continental, Atlantic, environmental, and ethnohistorical frame.
- Negotiated Colonial Sovereignty — why imperial claims often exceeded practical command.
- Colonial Political Economies of Land and Labor — regional systems of property, labor, staples, and political standing.
- The Thirteen Colonies Framework Distorts Early American History — the strongest case and scope qualification for Taylor’s framing.
- European Conquest and Indigenous Power in Colonial North America — conquest, Native agency, contingency, and the long-run asymmetric outcome.
Filed captures and working notes — October 2026
Colonialism sources and contrasting arguments
- Douglas Murray on Fanon & Said — preserved working note or source capture
- The Case for Colonialism PDF — preserved working note or source capture
- Zanzibar Revolution — preserved working note or source capture
Auto-index
Base index
Colonialism.base (file not included in this release)
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60.6.1.1 Timeline
- 8th Century BC - Greeks colonizing Southern Italy and coast of Turkey
- 15-16th Century - Portugal to Africa and Asia
- 15-16th Century - Spain-Portugal to South America
- 17-18th Century- Britain and France to North America
- 17-18th Century- Netherlands to Southeast Asia
- 17-19th Century- Britain to India, Bengal, Burma, Malaysia
- 19th Century- Decolonization
- 19th Century- European powers to Africa
- 227BC - Carthaginians from North Africa colonizing Spain, Sardinia, Sicily
- 300AD - Aksumite conquest of Kush
- 370 CE - Huns raiding Roman territories
- 711 AD - Moors invading Spain, France, Spain
- 827 AD - Aghlabid conquering Rome
- 1000-1500CE - Mississippian Warfare
- 1000-1620 - European-Indigenous Contact and Disease in North America
- 1076 - Almoravid conquest of Ghana Empire
- 1200BC - Phoenicians colonizing Southern Spain, Sardinia, Sicily
- 1400 (late) - Songhai conquest of Mali Empire
- 1400-1500s - Songhai conflict with Mossi states
- 1442 - Columbus lands
- 1500 - Portugal colonization of Brazil
- 1500s (early) - Spain colonies Aztec and Inca
- 1500s (early) - Spanish colonies established
- 1500s (mid-late) - French Canada
- 1504 - Funj conquest of Nubia
- 1565 - Spain colonizing Philippines
- 1600s - Dutch East Indies
- 1600s (early) - Britain and France in Caribbean
- 1607 - English Jamestown Colony
- 1609-1701 - Beaver Wars (Iroquois Wars in Canada)
- 1644-1912 - Qing Dynasty controls Xinjiang
- 1698-1730s - Oyo invasions of Dahomey
- 1819 - British establish Singapore as a trading post
- 1870s - French colonize Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
- 1898 - U.S. takes over Philippines from Spain
- 1910 - Japan annexes Korea
- Almohad Caliphate
- Decolonization of Asia after WWII
- European Colonization of North America - Timeline
- Timeline of Colonialism
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60.6.1.2 People
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60.6.1.3 Geographic Locations
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60.6.1.4 Misc
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Arab Colonization
- Arawak
- Colonial Political Economies of Land and Labor
- Colonialism Blog Post
- Colonialism Misc
- Colonialism
- Continental History of Colonial North America
- Decolonialism at Harvard
- European Conquest and Indigenous Power in Colonial North America - Argument Map
- Giving Thanks for Settler Colonialism - Michael Knowles LIVE at Vanderbilt University
- Negotiated Colonial Sovereignty
- Non-European Colonialism
- The Thirteen Colonies Framework Distorts Early American History
- TODO for Colonialism
- Uncancelled History with Douglas Murray - EP. 07 Age of the Explorers
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60.6.1.5 Books
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- Conquest Without Europeans - Africa
- Conquest Without Europeans - Asia
- Conquest Without Europeans - Evidence Locker
- Conquest Without Europeans - The Opposition Case
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Islam Caliphates, Conquering, Colonizing
- Native American Wars with Each Other Before Europeans Arrive
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Umayyad Caliphate
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Heated Debate Slavery, Reparations & Colonialism with Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Kehinde Andrews