Under the leadership of British statesman Edward G. Wakefield, the first British colonists to New Zealand arrived at Port Nicholson on Auckland Island. In 1642, […]

Australia was discovered in 1606 by Captain Jansz or Janszoon, a Dutchman. Each group of people lived in close relationship with the land and had […]

Although France sought an extensive colonial empire in Asia, its defeat in the Napoleonic Wars left it with just a handful of Asian territories. Those […]

The British Empire was the largest in the world prior to World War II and included a number of places in Asia. Those territories include […]

The Dutch competed and fought for control of the Indian Ocean trade routes and spice production with the British, through their respective East India Companies. […]

COLONIALISM IN ASIA Backgrounds After the Portuguese rounded the Cape of Good Hope on Africa’s southern tip in 1488 and opened sea lanes to the […]

After Vasco da Gama rounded the southern end of Africa in 1498, Portugal became the first European power to gain sea access to Asia. Although […]

The self-sufficient African economies were destroyed, transformed and subordinated by colonial domination. Class differentiation in African society occurred as a result of the impact of […]

FRANCE France had already established its control over Algeria in the time of Louis Philippe. But the province was developed in the time of Napoleon […]

The transportation network like rail and roads were almost completely absent in African Continent before the process of colonization. The African rivers were the only […]