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 […]

Backgrounds The process of Colonization of Africa had begun much before any part of the world. From the 1500 onwards, many points on the African […]

Scientific innovations played an important role in the success of explorers in being able to sail to the new lands. By the end of the […]

Settler Colonialism It involves large scale immigration, often motivated by religious, political, or economic reasons. Such as Australia, were settled by people from another country […]

Monopoly Trade and Plunder Colonialism The first stage had two basic objectives. First, in order to make trade more profitable, indigenously manufactured goods were to […]

The process started with the emergence of nation states which were an outcome of the breaking of the Holy Roman Empire. When these nation states […]