Imperialism
Imperialism is political, social or economical one country that rules an alien country. During the 1800's, European Countries and the United States started imperialism in Asia and Africa. In 1841, Dr. Livingston started exploring the African Interior, which produced promising information of the land and rivers. Explorations of gold and diamonds in Africa by Rhodes spurred excitement in the Western Countries. Two European nations had already had colonies in East Asia in 1800, which were Spain and the Netherlands. The western nations wanted imperialism in Africa and Asia because of new economic movements such as raw materials and new markets to export their goods, and they wanted to spread their religion in the these new territories. In the year 1819, Great Britain founded a new colony called Singapore. This colony became a major stopping point for trade between China and Europe. This new colony was similar to the colonies set up by Portugal in the 1400's in Africa. After their new Colony Singapore, Great Britain started to expand their East Asia colonies for economic reasons. They received the right to trade with the king of Burma. Later, Great Britain received territorial rights to Burma
In South Africa, a war had started between the Great Britain and the Boers. In Asia, they traded spices and raw materials to the Europeans. In Asia, France had to colonize Vietnam to try to stop Britain's monopoly of lands in Southeast Asia. Great Britain won the war and Great Britain established Hong Kong, which was a flourishing port with trade of raw materials and goods. In Vietnam, French missionaries were persecuted by the locals, who feared they were a threat to the Confucian Doctrine. France then established a French protectorate of Vietnam and later Cambodia, Annam, Tonkin, and Laos were also protectorates of France. Imperialism eventually brought about World War I because of the fighting between Germany and France for Morocco strategic location. France had most of Northern Africa, Italy had Zanzibar and Libya, Portugal had Angola and Mozambique, Great Britain had Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, South Africa and other Africa areas, and Germany had German East Africa and the Cameroon, Belgium had the Congo, and Spain had the Rio De Oro and Rio Muni. Some of the Imperialism colonies names are still used today. The nations would pay warlords for the opportunity to gain exclusive trading rights and mining privileges. In East Africa, Germany and Britain became chief rivals in this area. In Asia and Africa, imperialism brought strong independents such as Liberia and Ethiopia in Africa and Thailand and Japan in Asia. In Africa, they traded gold and diamonds to European homelands. Japan had mostly blocked off trading with the Western World. Great Britain had set up ports in Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast as trading centers.
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