Colonialism; YAY OR NAY

I would like to start off by saying thank you for accepting this endless debate and may the best debater win. I would like to comment on how you highlighted the world wars in great depth, however you talked about Nazi colonization; if Hitler had not conquered and explored the Holocaust would not have occurred, agreed? "many countries in the east were in shambles due to the oppressive surge of the Nazi's and Japanese" is what you said but you did not highlight concentration camps, and they did fight in order to attain others land. We do both agree that converted religions did occur. It has been proven that NO native tribes have flourished except a couple. Native Americans are dying as we speak because they are on little reserves, it is not leisure for them nor a pleasure. Colonization has betrayed and ruined us of the best we could have flourished to be. Another con of exploration was the large amount of slavery produced by the reigning country. The colonized usually worked for the reigning country. Slavery was torture for the previous and rightful owners of the land. Countries would use the slaves as value and would sell and buy them. Families would get torn apart and had a 0.00021% chance of getting back to each other. Slavery has existed to varying extents, forms and periods in almost all cultures and continents. Between the 7th and 20th centuries, Arab slave trade (also known as slavery in the East) took approximately 18 million slaves from Africa via trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean routes. Between the 15th and the 19th centuries, the Atlantic slave trade took up to 12 million slaves to the New World. From 1654 until 1865, slavery for life was legal within the boundaries of the present United States. According to the 1860 U.S. census, nearly four million slaves were held in a total population of just over 12 million in the 15 states in which slavery was legal. Of all 1,515,605 families in the 15 slave states, 393,967 held slaves (roughly one in four), amounting to 8% of all American families. In 1807, the United Kingdom became one of the first nations to end its own participation in the slave trade. Furthermore, between 1808 and 1860, the British West Africa Squadron seized approximately 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans who were aboard. This was done "to sweep the African and American Seas of the atrocious Commerce with which they are now infested". Action was also taken against African leaders who refused to agree to British treaties to outlaw the trade, for example against "the usurping King of Lagos", deposed in 1851. Anti-slavery treaties were signed with over 50 African rulers. In 1827, Britain declared the slave trade piracy, punishable by death. Activity which could be called colonialism has a long history. Colonies in antiquity were built by the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans. The word metropole comes from the Greek metropolis - mother city. The word colony comes from the Latin colonia – a place for agriculture. Modern colonialism started with the Age of Discovery. Portugal and Spain discovered new lands across the oceans and built trading posts. For some people, it is this building of colonies across oceans that differentiate colonialism from other types of expansionism. These new lands were divided between the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire, first by the papal bull Inter caetera and then by the Treaty of Tordesillas and the Treaty of Zaragoza (1529). The seventeenth century saw the creation of the British Empire, the French colonial empire and the Dutch Empire. It also saw the establishment of some Swedish overseas colonies and a Danish colonial empire. The spread of colonial empires was reduced in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the American Revolutionary War and the Hispanic American wars of independence. However, many new colonies were established after this time, including for the German colonial empire and Belgian colonial empire. In the late nineteenth century, many European powers were involved in the Scramble for Africa. The Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire existed at the same time as the above empires, but these are often not considered colonial because they did not expand over oceans. Rather, these Empires expanded through the more traditional route of conquest of neighbouring territories. However, Russia did at times in its history have overseas colonies in the form of territories in North America such as Alaska. The Empire of Japan modelled itself on European colonial Empires. The United States of America gained overseas territories after the Spanish-American War and the term American Empire was coined. One thing I will agree with you slightly on is the tribute shown to Natives at events, we are slowly growing to show the appreciation for them. The opening ceremony, if you watched showed a great tribute to Natives, but we could still do much better, Thank You