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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Indonesia a

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country whose thousands of islands kind of look like a swordfish seriously don't [Islands of Indonesia transform into swordfish]

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tell us you can't see that....here's our question which country colonized

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Indonesia and here's the potential answers....

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As fun as it'd be to make a list of every place these countries

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colonize there are only so many hours in the day maybe best to just memorize this

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one well sure we could logically guess Britain considering they colonized [Person pins Britain on pin board]

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everyone......

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However Britain never colonized Indonesia so Indonesian grandmothers can [Grandmother sleeping on a bench]

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sleep safely tonight....

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Next to go is D - Sure China has historically had a bunch of political

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and economic influence over Indonesia but they never colonized it yeah keep

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counting sheep granny - France might make sense, seeing as

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their Empire was at one point second only to Great Britain in the colonizing [Man stood outside French government building]

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But that too would be a serious faux pas

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which means our correct answer is C the Netherlands yeah, that's right

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Indonesia was one the Dutch East Indies formed in 1800 from the nationalized

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colonies of the Dutch East India Company and remained as such until the end of [Dutch ships in the sea]

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the Second World War who knew and hey if you're still having trouble remembering

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just take a look at the Netherlands flag remove the bottom blue stripe and well

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what do you get yeah the Indonesian flag easy right I know it [Netherlands flag becomes Indonesian flag]

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