WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to growing trade in commodities-a key development in the rise of today’s modern world free market economy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Beyond China, European imperialism in Asia remained strong. Britain moved into Hong Kong in 1842, into Burma in 1886, and into Kowloon in 1898. France took direct control over the provinces of Indochina–Annam, Tonkin, and Cochinchina (which together make up modern day Vietnam), Laos, and Cambodia.

Detailed explanation-3: -The major colonizers of Southeast Asia were Europeans, Japanese and the U.S. All in all, there were seven colonial powers in Southeast Asia: Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, the United States, and Japan. From the 1500s to the mid-1940s, colonialism was imposed over Southeast Asia.

Detailed explanation-4: -Britain’s colonial legacy in South Asia over hundreds of years includes arbitrarily partitioning the country along religious lines, the Bengal Famine, exporting slaves to other territories, and looting trillions of dollars of wealth.