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Q. Which European country controlled most Africa?
France took control of most parts of West Africa. Colonial rule was the result of competition among European countries for control of African resources.
Q. Which European nation dominated most of Africa between 1884 and the 1950s?
The nations that dominated most in Africa between 1884 and 1950’s are Belgium where the colonial power was achieved by accident. Then, Great Britain acquired colonial empire through a combination of military force and diplomacy.
Q. Which European power colonized most of southern Africa?
Increased European encroachment ultimately led to the colonisation and occupation of South Africa by the Dutch. The Cape Colony remained under Dutch rule until 1795 before it fell to the British Crown, before reverting back to Dutch Rule in 1803 and again to British occupation in 1806.
Q. What if Europe never colonized Africa?
If Africa was never colonized it would still be a continent dominated by 3rd world nations. The borders and number of these nations would look very different. Africa today is not backward because of European colonization, rather it was successfully colonized because it was backward.
Q. Did Africa ever conquer Europe?
From 711 AD up until 1492 AD, Muslim African Moors overcame and ruled Spain. The Great Mosque of Córdoba, considered one of the world’s architectural phenomena, is an evidence of this conquest. It still stands today although in a ravaged state. Tarif, the port city of Spain, is named after him.
Q. How did Europe destroy Africa?
Europeans destroyed these systems in large areas of Africa when they developed the trade in enslaved Africans. Local systems were badly affected and overwhelmed by the demands of the new trade in enslaved Africans, a trade imposed by the better developed guns and ships of the Europeans.
Q. Why Europe dominated the world?
Europeans came to dominate the world beginning in the late 15th century, according to Harari, because they held a different perspective from the rest of the world. Most empires only attacked what was adjacent, not an ocean and half a world away.
Q. How did Europe rule the world?
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe, establishing colonies and spreading their influence across every inhabited continent. Industrialization also falls short as an explanation: the Europeans had taken control of more than 35 percent of the planet even before they began to industrialize.
Q. Why did Europe advance faster than America?
Major portions of Eurasia had a natural advantage in developing agriculture in the presence of plants that could be easily domesticated. Domesticated Animals here was also an advantage. North and South America, as well as Africa had a lack of large domestic animals such as Europe and Asia..
Q. Why did Europe advance more than Africa?
The short answer: Europe profited off of the backs of slave labor, due to the Atlantic Slave Trade, where they took people from Africa who were traditional slaves to other African tribes (meaning they were slaves of wars between tribes—Old World kind of slaves who could earn their freedom easily like the Romans had …
