European conquest annexed new worlds as possessions or trade dependencies.
Evidence
2 The period of early contact, conquest, settlement, and colonization, when large parts of these “new worlds” were first annexed to Europe as possessions, or harnessed through trade. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 535
Categorization
- DEFINE: Establishes the phase taxonomy of colonial expansion the reader’s toolkit needs.
- XREF: connects to: European economic control over Muslim states preceded and enabled direct colonization; Expansion—exporting money rather than people—differs fundamentally from conquest; European empires annexed over eight million square miles in fifteen years — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2187 (+10 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: European economic control over Muslim states preceded and enabled direct colonization; Expansion—exporting money rather than people—differs fundamentally from conquest; European empires annexed over eight million square miles in fifteen years — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2187 (+10 more)