Papua New Guinea
The Boston Massacre has come to be a representation of the oppression that the British subjected the American Colonies to prior to their independence.
North Korea has consistently had the same communist government since independence in 1948. Prior to independence, North Korea had never had a communist government before.
The 13 colonies became a confederation prior to the Declaration of Independence, after which the USA was formed.
Greece had won its independence from Turkey about 30 years prior to the American Civil War & would have had little (if any) involvement with it.
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea was admnistered by Australia between World War I and 1975. Prior to World War I, the northern half was under German control and the southern half was under control of Great Britain.
Yes, before independence, it was Northern Rhodesia.
A variety of local languages were spoken in Guinea prior to the advent of European colonization.
To stop it from drying out
Nigeria.
The United Kingdom
Yes.
Hard one to answer, according to their oral histories they arrived on the coast of Papua New Guinea on Collingwood Bay, conquering the previous inhabitants in the late 19th century and were in the midst of expanding their territory when European colonial government showed up. Where they came from prior to that? I don't know.
India.
Prior to 1907 (?), New Zealand was a Colony and administered from UK. Then NZ became a self-governing Dominion, but de facto (effectively), it became an distinct country when it started signing International Agreements in its own right. Its formal independence was declared in 1947 (?).