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GCSE English Literature · key term
The establishment of control over another territory and its people by an outside power, often involving settlement and exploitation.
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Paper 1
The establishment of settlements and control over another territory and its inhabitants by an outside power.
Revise: ContextColonisation involved more than travelling: settlers claimed land and imposed their authority, creating conflicts over ownership and the treatment of existing inhabitants.
Establishing control over a territory and its inhabitants by people arriving from elsewhere.
Part (b): distinguish colonisation from power generally by connecting control to land, exploitation of inhabitants or claims of cultural superiority.
Parts (a) and (b): distinguish Bennett’s comic description of migration as colonisation from the historical violence of imperial conquest.
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The establishment of control over another territory and its inhabitants by outsiders, often involving settlement and exploitation of land or labour.
Paper 1
The establishment of control over another territory and its people, often involving settlement, exploitation of resources and the imposition of the newcomers’ authority.
Revise: ContextCaliban’s relationship with Prospero can be read through the context of European colonisation. In Act 1 Scene 2, Caliban says, “This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, / Which thou takest from me.” He describes initially welcoming Prospero and showing him the island’s resources, only to become confined and forced to work for him.
The process through which outsiders establish settlements or take control of a territory and its inhabitants.
Paper 1, Paper 2
The establishment of settlements and outside control over a territory, often involving the loss of indigenous people’s land and independence.
Revise: Imperialism and colonisationColonisation involves establishing settlements and outside control, often taking land and independence from indigenous inhabitants. The Martians are not simply destroying things: they are making Earth their own territory.
Component 2
The establishment of settlements and control over a territory by outsiders, often involving the displacement or subordination of its existing inhabitants.
Revise: Imperialism and colonisationImperialism means extending power over other territories and peoples; colonisation involves outsiders establishing settlements and control. The Martians do not merely attack Britain. They defeat resistance, occupy territory and prepare to establish themselves on Earth.
