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How were the European empires of the nineteenth century similar to earlier European empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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The European empires of the nineteenth century were similar to earlier European empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as both enlisted the cooperation of the colonized population.

Similarities in European empires of the Nineteenth century and sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

  • In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the old pre-industrial empires began to fall, new empires emerged as Europe accelerated its development of military and economic might relative to the rest of the globe.
  • In 1800, little over half of the world's land surface was occupied by Europe and its colonies and former colonies; by 1914, this percentage had risen to about 85%.
  • The only significant populated regions of the world that had never been governed by Europe by the time of the Second World War were China, Ethiopia, Japan, and Mongolia.
  • At the end of the twentieth century, however, there were only a few scattered and disjointed colonial territories remained after these huge worldwide empires had all but completely disintegrated in little more than thirty years.

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