I am not sure, but I believe it is the Qin Dynasty
English, Chinese, French, Japanese, are a few that come to mind, If you are talking about Imperialistic Great Britian and France during the Age of Imperialism. I'm not sure about all of those other ones, except Latin was I'm sure dead around that age.
Let's take a look at the name: colonies. If a land is a colony, it is a colony of something, that is, there is some other land that has control over it: in this case this was Great Britain: Great Britain had claims and control over the colonies.
