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1. This was actually pretty historically accurate. 2 major reasons that it was was due to the fact that the more people a country had, the more territories it could colonize. Also, by chance, Britain did capture the United States, and Canada was taken by France. It turned out to be historically correct due to the fact that the size of the countries were proportional to their true sizes. Also, it was the same how you might get to a territory that was really far out, then turns out someone already colonized it.

2. France was a huge advantage because we were the 2nd largest country, so we could leave lots of people at a good territory, then send other people to go gain even more territories. However, we were not the largest group, so Britain could gain colonies faster than us.

3. Our group communicated mainly by cell phone, but also by talking to people if we saw they had our color on. I don't believe this was really similar to historical times, based on the fact that cell phones are from the 1990s ... The only similarity might be the runners which went to draw flags for our colonies, and to communicate a new colony to the "UN" i guess ? of Europe, aka Cafeteria.

4. If we saw other countries, we would try to beat them to a colony or would show French pride. SIf other colonies saw us trying to colonize, they would simply just go away and not even try to take it from us. So no, there were no conflicts.

5. I thought this was really cool and fun and really helped put imperialism into real life perspective, which really helped me understand it better. I know understand the reasons for larger countries being more powerful, rather than simply accepting the fact that bigger=more power=more colonies. I thought it was really interesting how it really represented the Age of Imperialism, as well, and that many countries actually did gain as many colonies as they historically did, and the same ones that they did.

6. For one, I think there should be activities that countries actually have to do to gain a colony, along with leaving however many people there for however long. Maybe also there could be more colonies ? Or maybe ... I don't even know, I thought it was really good and accurate, to be honest. I really think just having activities would make it more real, and it would allow other countries to come when a territory was in the process of being colonized, and could allow for "wars" where the countries go back and forth on who can offer the most for the colony.