Who were some important people during the colonial era?

Answer 1

The Portuguese in Africa, the Spanish and British in America, the Dutch in Indonesia, the British and the French later on in the Middle

East and northern Africa. Also the English and Dutch have been in South Africa, aswell as the Dutch have been in New York (New Amsterdam), aswell as the British have been in Australia and New Sealand, aswell as the Spanish have been in Africa (Western Sahara, Northern Morocco), aswell as the Portuguese also have been in Southern America (Brasil). The Portuguese, French, British and the Dutch have had a very disgraceful time in deportating millions of black Africans as slaves to southern America. That's why the Carrabean is also populated by black people. In Willemstad, Curaçao (Still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) there is a slave museum who reminds at that horrible time.