Nice quiz. At one time Yemen was occupied by the Ottoman and British Empires (half each, the British in South Yemen/Aden, where they remained until 1967). Not sure if that counts as "half-colonized" or not.
AncientAutomaton you got totally wrong, during the 14s century to the 20s century the Ottoman Empire was considerate as a european nation. Bfeore WW1 for exemple, he was name "the sick man of Europe"
ARIKANCELIKOK, Well China was colonized by Europeans but for war too, does that count because countries like Portugal, UK, etc had actually took some lands away from the homeland
Nice quiz! However, first of all large parts of Turkey have been colonised by the Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and later by Crusaders. Turkey should be definitvely not on the list. Further, the term "partially colonised" is arbitrary. Large parts of Africa were never under effective control of Europe (e.g. inner Congo). That holds already for imperialistic rule and definitively also for actual "colonialism". And what about USA or Canada? Have European powers controlled, e.g., Montana?! I propose to add some clarifications.
Thank you! Nice questions. It is true that the western park of Turkey was colonized and controlled by both Greeks and later Romans, the eastern part was mostly untouched by Europeans and remained under the control of Persian Dynasties of the time and Armenians.
About the Americas...Although large parts of US, Canada, the Amazon region and Patagonia in Argentina was never settled by the Europeans, they were still claimed and were part of those powers at least on paper. (Before the border adjustments between the US and Canada, Montana was claimed by the British as part of Canada).
When you look at today's Greenland, literally no one lives in the middle of the island, but it is still considered being colonized by Denmark.
I am pretty sure they claimed all at least on paper. The exact claim you use in the comment above for not including countries like Argentina, the United States and Canada.
Lol, nice try, but nope, they didn't claim it all. More precisely, Spain did not let them do it as it was too close to their own colony in Philippines. They established a settlement at the north to check the dutch expansion at the south, and in the middle of the island there was Kingdom of Middag, a fully independent taiwanese state.
To be sure I checked the wikipedia articles about Dutch Formosa, Spanish Formosa and Kingdom of Middag. Here is a short recap of the information I found there. The Spanish were ousted by the Dutch from the island in 1642. To connect their new possessions in the North with their possessions in the South, the Dutch forced the king of Middag to acknowledge Dutch overlordship in 1645. In 1661 an army of Ming loyalists invaded the island. A year later the Dutch agreed to leave Taiwan. So between 1645 and 1661 the colonial government of the Dutch was uncontested by anyone. As a result I do not think Taiwan should be included in this quiz.
Thank you Calocaerus. Adding Taiwan was Quizmaster's idea (when the quiz got a star). Quizmaster showed me a map of Taiwan from the period, including Kingdom of Mittag. I didn't object it at that time because I trusted it without checking the Wikipedia article. Now I resubmitted the quiz, its waiting the approval.
It means afternoon (mid-day) in dutch, and I guess that is also how the swedish word came about, the food you eat at midday. I wonder what the etymology is. I couldnt find it. Middag is the westerm term and not the native, so it could well really just mean afternoon.
Middag is "afternoon" but etymologically (and anciently) it means "midday/noon", which was also used for "South". This is still the case in Italian (mezzogiorno) or French (midi) for example.
- Ethiopia was "fully" colonized by the Italians in 1935.
- Parts of the USA were not yet colonized by the time the British were kicked out so wouldnt that mean it should be on the list. Same with Brazil.
- Taiwan was colonized by the Dutch.
- Mongolia was colonized by the Russians for a few years before being given it's independence.
I'm also wondering whether the USA should be counted as a colonialist nation as it is basically European culturally. (Because of the USA is counted, Liberia, Japan and South Korea should not be on this list).
Walk around Addis Ababa sometime and you'll see that the Italians built more stuff there in five years than the Ethiopians have managed in the succeeding 70. The center of the city is still called the Piazza.
Why wouldn't who what? Do you mean why wouldn't the Italians develop the infrastructure and downtown area of Addis Ababa? Is that really the best segue you could come up with to throw out some insult at the Italians? I'm not even saying that they don't deserve it, but... that's just weak.
I say if it was only for a few years, it does not count. Germany invaded the Netherlands during World War II, and had complete control of it, but no one would say Germany colonized the Netherlands. And so on. Italy invaded Ethiopia, but was there for about five years. That is not enough time to colonize a country.
No indeed. I've a vague idea that, like the Maltese, they asked to be part of the British Empire, but unlike the Maltese they were refused. Their flag takes cues from the Union Jack and the flag of the USA as they wanted to show some kind of friendliness to both powers, as far as I remember.
Funny quiz. I was convinced that Eritrea should have been in the list since it split off from Ethiopia relatively recently. But sure enough: this territory was separately colonized by the Italians back in history.
Yes - the king of the Basotho (as I think they are called) famously went to meet Queen Victoria to get her to agree to guarantee their independence in some way.
To claim and to colonize are quite different verbs in my mind. Further, this quiz is trying to make a distinction between "colonize" and "fully colonize," so I was just wondering what that distinction meant. How was the USA fully colonized by Europeans while Ethiopia was only partially colonized? I'm legitimately curious how one draws that distinction, and I imagine that it can't actually be done in any way that makes objective sense. Did the Italians not claim all of Ethiopia? On the map on Wikipedia it certainly looks as though they did.
Italy was in control for five years. They invaded, certainly. But colonizing means exerting control, imposing the colonizing power over the native institutions, profoundly affecting the culture, and maybe also encouraging largescale immigration from the colonizing power. So the USA is not a land of native American groups. It is mostly populated by white people. Its institutions come from England - its form of education, its law system, its language, and so on. In Ethiopia the people are not descendants of Italian settlers, people do not speak Italian as a native language, and there is just not that much Italian influence.
I could pick apart that distinction with ease, both by demonstrating how your characterization of the Italian colonization of East Africa is unrealistically minimizing what they did there, and also by pointing to dozens of other countries that are considered, by this quiz and in other places, to have been "fully colonized" where the local people are not descendants of colonists, where they speak their own language, and where there is a similar level of lasting influence. Or, by going back to the US example, pointing to large swaths of the country where there was never any real European colonial presence at all.
The white people in the USA came from Europe. The whole thing was a colony at some point. However, it is actually a settler nation, which is not quite the same thing.
Ethiopia should not be on this list. Abyssinia was the last part of Ethiopia to be colonised by the Italians in 1934/5; the rest was already split into "British Somaliland" and "Italian Somaliland
but Iran was colonized by the Great Britain and the Russian Empire during WWI and before that.
they actually divided Iran to 2 parts, the northern part for Russia and the Southern part for Britain.
it all goes back to the Constitutional revolution in Iran, while Mohammad Ali Shah of Iran didn't accept the desire of the Iranian people to have a constitutional monarchy like Britain and tried to take the power with the help of Russia.
that is when Vladimir Liakhov of Russia shelled the Majles (the Parliament) of Iran.
and before that, during Queen Victoria's era in Britain, Afghanistan was an Iranian state, but the British government took it from Iran with several Strategical Policies that you can read on Wikipedia. like attacking to the south of Iran to distract the Iranian army from focusing on the Afghanistan area.
Ethiopia was colonized by Italy. It became part of Italian Empire on May 9th 1936. The Emperor of Ethiopia was Victor Emanuel III King of Italy, there was a Viceroy, a colonial government. So why is on the list?
It doesn't make any sense. It colonized, not occupied, 5 years or 50 what's the difference? We are asked about countries colonized, Ethiopia was colonized by Italy for 5 years 1936-1941, not occupied, but colonized.
You forget the fact fact that about a qaurter of that are european countries. (plus during the colonnial era, several places were not independent countries yet).
But yea europe got busy. Yay we have ships, let's rule the world, and hope we don't fall off the edge !
Oman wasn't colonized either, also Mongolia was a 'good friend' of the Soviets, if you catch my drift.
also Kiribati, Palau, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands were colonized by Germany but given to Japan after ww1 then the USA gave them independence after ww2.
Also Taiwan was colonized by Portuguese and then dutch, and finally the Japanese so by 1930 it was owned by japan and should be on this list
Didn't both the British and the Soviets control Iran and Afghanistan for periods of time? Also, Italy invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in WWII. Granted, Turkey wasn't a country before the Ottoman rule there, but Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) was.
Turkey is at least partly a European country. The Ottoman Empire had significant territory in Europe and acted during the age of colonization in a very similar way as other European countries and colonized other countries. Thus it actually shouldn't be in the list.
The status of Nepal and Bhutan is debated and complicated. Nepal was kind of like a princely state after the Treaty of 1814, but she was considered independent. It was only in 1923 when Nepal became completely independent. Similary, Bhutan became independent in 1910. They, however, continued to be "protected states" of British India, a status they still have with India.
Moreover, this comment of yours is very colonial-minded and offensive.
As other commenters have pointed out, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Yemen shouldn't be on the list. Italy controlled Ethiopia for some time. Afghanistan was a British protectorate for a considerable amount of time while Yemen, or three-fourths of it, was under various levels of British rule.
I'm aware that you don't like to reset a quiz on the day it gets featured, but the mistakes should be corrected.
Iran was occupied but not colonised by the british and russians (basically a preemptive invasion to prevent iran from joining the axis)
Afghanistan, nepal and bhutan were protectorates not colonies.
Liberia is interesting since technically it was a colony of the U.S.A but more in line with the greek colonies being independent of its mother country. However it was created by the U.S. and settled by many americans. It perpose was to create a country for "african" americans to live in. So i would consider it as being colonised by what was a culturally and politically european country.
Mongolia was not a colony though it was briefly occupied by the ussr.
Turkey was a coloniser during most of the early modern to modern periods (1300-1900) and could be considered european in some ways. In fact it was one of the main reasons for the first colonial period of early modern europe as its dominance of the spice trade was the main reason portugal started its colonial empire
Wheres Ethiopia Italy had it from about 1936-1945. I know that Italy wasn’t important during WWII but that doesn’t mean you should disregard their colonial possessions at the time :/
Ethiopia was colonized by Italy; China was colonized by several european powers (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands...); Iran, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Tonga were british protectorates; Mongolia was a satellite of the Soviet Union... come on
For example in German it's "die Türkei" (feminine article) and therefore "Sie" (she).
About the Americas...Although large parts of US, Canada, the Amazon region and Patagonia in Argentina was never settled by the Europeans, they were still claimed and were part of those powers at least on paper. (Before the border adjustments between the US and Canada, Montana was claimed by the British as part of Canada).
When you look at today's Greenland, literally no one lives in the middle of the island, but it is still considered being colonized by Denmark.
- Ethiopia was "fully" colonized by the Italians in 1935.
- Parts of the USA were not yet colonized by the time the British were kicked out so wouldnt that mean it should be on the list. Same with Brazil.
- Taiwan was colonized by the Dutch.
- Mongolia was colonized by the Russians for a few years before being given it's independence.
I'm also wondering whether the USA should be counted as a colonialist nation as it is basically European culturally. (Because of the USA is counted, Liberia, Japan and South Korea should not be on this list).
And yes, France has been part of Germany during World War II, with the exception of Vichy controlled southern France, although it was a puppet state.
https://www.quora.com/Which-countries-in-Africa-were-never-colonized
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So... try again.
13 colonies and hawaii-United Kingdom
Large part of Midwest
Big part of west and florida- Spain
but Iran was colonized by the Great Britain and the Russian Empire during WWI and before that.
they actually divided Iran to 2 parts, the northern part for Russia and the Southern part for Britain.
it all goes back to the Constitutional revolution in Iran, while Mohammad Ali Shah of Iran didn't accept the desire of the Iranian people to have a constitutional monarchy like Britain and tried to take the power with the help of Russia.
that is when Vladimir Liakhov of Russia shelled the Majles (the Parliament) of Iran.
and before that, during Queen Victoria's era in Britain, Afghanistan was an Iranian state, but the British government took it from Iran with several Strategical Policies that you can read on Wikipedia. like attacking to the south of Iran to distract the Iranian army from focusing on the Afghanistan area.
But yea europe got busy. Yay we have ships, let's rule the world, and hope we don't fall off the edge !
also Kiribati, Palau, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands were colonized by Germany but given to Japan after ww1 then the USA gave them independence after ww2.
Also Taiwan was colonized by Portuguese and then dutch, and finally the Japanese so by 1930 it was owned by japan and should be on this list
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Moreover, this comment of yours is very colonial-minded and offensive.
I'm aware that you don't like to reset a quiz on the day it gets featured, but the mistakes should be corrected.
Afghanistan, nepal and bhutan were protectorates not colonies.
Liberia is interesting since technically it was a colony of the U.S.A but more in line with the greek colonies being independent of its mother country. However it was created by the U.S. and settled by many americans. It perpose was to create a country for "african" americans to live in. So i would consider it as being colonised by what was a culturally and politically european country.
Mongolia was not a colony though it was briefly occupied by the ussr.
Turkey was a coloniser during most of the early modern to modern periods (1300-1900) and could be considered european in some ways. In fact it was one of the main reasons for the first colonial period of early modern europe as its dominance of the spice trade was the main reason portugal started its colonial empire