WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ethiopia and Liberia are widely believed to be the only two African countries to have never been colonized. Their location, economic viability, and unity helped Ethiopia and Liberia avoid colonization.

Detailed explanation-2: -Japan and Korea successfully staved off European domination, in part due to their strength and diplomacy, their isolationist policies, and perhaps their distance.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ethiopia was able to be successful in resisting imperialism because they allied with other local kingdoms and with Russia, who supplied them with weaponry to defeat the Italian army at the Battle of Adwa.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent country and its second largest in terms of population. Apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini’s Italy, it has never been colonised.

Detailed explanation-5: -By 1914, the only independent African states were Liberia and Ethiopia. The area of West Africa that is now called the Democratic Republic of Congo is a good example of what happened to many African countries during the Scramble for Africa.