COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM 1870 1914
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The Age of Discovery
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New Imperialism
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Old Imperialism
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Divide and Conquer
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the Age of New Imperialism (1870–1914), the African continent was partitioned by several European powers, which collided in their ambitions to seize territory. The protectorate treaty, concluded between Africans and Europeans, formed the main mode of acquiring title to land.
Detailed explanation-2: -In historical contexts, New Imperialism characterizes a period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States, and Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The period featured an unprecedented pursuit of overseas territorial acquisitions.
Detailed explanation-3: -There were technologies, ideas, and beliefs that gave Europeans, and the inhabitants of a few other countries, a motive and justification for constructing empires. Many of these were new, and certainly their combination was new, and so we call this a “New Imperialism".
Detailed explanation-4: -In the Age of New Imperialism that began in the 1870s, European states established vast empires mainly in Africa, but also in Asia and the Middle East.