But through British patronage it grew, creating for the colonialists a pliable tribal elite.
North Korea inherited railways from the former Japanese colonialists that run predominantly up the west of the country.
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The last successful invaders were French colonialists, who used Tafraoute as their headquarters.
When the colonialists were forced out, partly by a slave revolt, Haiti became the first free black republic in 1804.
One of the first things the colonialists did was to dismantle the institutions of what we could call civil society.
The dodo was mocked by Portuguese and Dutch colonialists for its size and apparent lack of fear of armed, hungry hunters.
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With the coming of the colonialists, Njurinceke was suppressed and weakened so that the invader could alienate the land and the people.
Even more common are cities bearing royal family names selected by enterprising colonialists in search of kudos from overseas: Annapolis, Mar.
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Mr Thach said that America's intervention in Vietnam was now in the past: and the Americans, unlike the French, were not colonialists.
Njurinceke is the traditional Council of Elders, almost destroyed by colonialists but saved through the efforts Dr Gaita Baikiao, a director of ACRI.
Built by Japanese colonialists in 1914, the distillery, one of the island's largest, produced sake and plum wine until its closure in 1987.
Whereas Western democracy champions believe that all people are born with the same Western liberal democratic values, post-colonialists believe that non-Westerners are nothing more than victims of the West.
In fact, some have never forgiven the British colonialists for arbitrarily throwing together a myriad ethnic and religious groups, and then leaving them to try and get on with each other.
"Some African countries export fruit and import fruit juice, or export olives and import olive oil, simply because their past colonialists did not teach them how to process food, " he told the AFP news agency.
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