WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Between 1852 and 1856, Livingstone opened routes from the interior to the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans in an attempt to enable legitimate trade to undercut the Arab slave trade.

Detailed explanation-2: -ECONOMIC motives included the desire to make money, to expand and control foreign trade, to create new markets for products, to acquire raw materials and cheap labor, to compete for investments and resources, and to export industrial technology and transportation methods.

Detailed explanation-3: -Scramble for Africa: The invasion, occupation, division, colonization, and annexation of African territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism, between 1881 and 1914. It is also called the Partition of Africa and the Conquest of Africa.

Detailed explanation-4: -Japan’s rise as a colonial power. Japan was the only Asian country to escape colonization from the West. European nations and the United States tried to “open the door, ‘’ and to some extent they succeeded; but Japan was able to shake off the kind of subjugation, informal or formal, to which the rest of Asia succumbed.