WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -During this time, European countries such as Britain, Spain, France, and Portugal colonized lands across North and South America.

Detailed explanation-2: -The European colonization of the Americas was the process by which European settlers populated the regions of North, Central, South America, and the islands of the Caribbean. It is also recognized as the direct cause for the cultures of the various indigenous people of those regions being replaced and often eradicated.

Detailed explanation-3: -United Kingdom (Britain) The British Empire was the largest of its kind in history, and once covered about one quarter of all the land on Earth.

Detailed explanation-4: -France took control of most parts of West Africa. Colonial rule was the result of competition among European countries for control of African resources.

Detailed explanation-5: -Modern colonialism In the Colonial Era, colonialism in this context refers mostly to Western European countries’ colonization of lands mainly in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.