Historians often distinguish between two forms of colonialism, chiefly based on the number of people from the colonising country who settle in the colony:
Settler colonialism involved a large number of colonists, typically seeking fertile land to farm.
Exploitation colonialism involved fewer colonists, typically interested in extracting resources to export to the metropole. This category includes trading posts but it also includes much larger colonies where the colonists would provide much of the administration and own much of the land and other capital but rely on indigenous people for labour.
There is a certain amount of overlap between these models of colonialism. In both cases people moved to the colony and goods were exported to the metropole.
A plantation colony is normally considered to fit the model of exploitation colonialism. However, in this case there may be other immigrants to the colony - slaves to grow the cash crop for export.
In some cases, settler colonialism took place in substantially pre-populated areas and the result was either an ethnically mixed population (such as the mestizos of the Americas), or a racially divided population, such as in French Algeria or Southern Rhodesia.
A League of Nations mandate was legally very different to a colony. However, there was some similarity with exploitation colonialism.
Source:en.wikipedia.com
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