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| During the nineteenth century, many Western powers scrambled
for new territories in Southeast Asia and Africa. Governing by either indirect
or direct rule, the Western powers controlled the governments and economies
of their colonies. Some territories resisted colonial rule, but most early
resistance movements failed. |
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| During the late nineteenth century, the major European
powers scrambled to colonize Africa. Virtually all of Africa was under
European rule by 1900. Maintaining that rule was not easy, however. African
nationalism emerged during the early part of the twentieth century. |
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| The British brought order and stability to India, but
India paid a high price for British rule. The mistrust and cultural differences
between the British and Indians sparked an independence movement and renewed
interest among Indians in their culture and history. |
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| The success of the American Revolution and the ideals
of the French Revolution spread throughout Latin America. One by one the
Latin American countries gained their independence from colonial rule.
However, with that independence came the realization that they had exchanged
being political colonies of the Western powers to being their economic
allies, dependent on their former rulers. |
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Quiz 24:
Imperialism
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