"Board Game for French Kids Taught Colonialism" Topic

A 1940s Board Game for French Kids Taught Tactics for Successful Colonialism
Published in 1941, this "Trading Game: France—Colonies" aimed to teach French children the basics of colonial management.

Players drew cards corresponding to colony names, then had to deploy cards representing assets like boats, engineers, colonists, schools, and equipment, in order to win cards representing the exports of the various colonies. "Images on the game," Getty Research Institute curator Isotta Poggi writes in her blog post on the document, "provide a vivid picture of the vast variety of resources, including animals, plants, and minerals, that the colonies provided to France." Cartoons on the cards depict coal (mined by a figure clearly intended to be a "native"), rubber, wood, and even wild animals.

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It is interesting that something on this topic with the massive use of color would have been developed and published after France was subjugated by the Germans. I would have guessed a much earlier development and production.

Jim

Colonialism? Because you have to build hospitals in third world countries and send engineers there? Otherwise, the game seems more to depict capitalism and global free trade. :-D

Where is the option for deploying "La Legion?"