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Division of the world in colonial empires, Where finished - Coggle Diagram
Division of the world in colonial empires
French Empire
Second-largest colonial empire
Africa
Especially
North
Further
South
French West Africa
French Equatiorial Africa
Tunisia
Algeria
Morocco
Plan to
occupy
vast area of
Africa
From
Red Sea
To
Atlantic
Clashed
with
Brithis interests
in
Sudan
Asia
Southeast
Conchinchina
(mid 19thc)
French Indochina
(late 19thc)
New
Protectorates
Cambodia
Vietnam
Laos
Non-European Empires: USA and Japan
USA
After
American Civil War
(1861-65)
Great power
in few
decades
thx to
Technology
Raw materials
Energy sources
Colonial expansion
Towards
Pacific
Caribbean
drove out Spain
Philippines
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Area of
Panama
Last
industrial powers
to start
colonial enterprise
Japan
Emperor Meiji
(Mutsuhito)
Began
Japan's modernisation
(1868)
Fast, large scale industrialisation process
thx to
Western engineers
Large financial entities
State funding
Stopped Russian invasion
in
Manchuria
(China)
Occupied
Kuril Islands
Korea
Formosa (Taiwan)
British Empire
Late 19thc
Largest colonial empire
Controlled maritime trade
routes
Bases in
Atlantic
Indian
Pacific
Mediterranean
Africa
Created
an
empire
From Cairo
(North)
Cape Town
(South)
Asia
India
Main Colony
Thx to
large population
Major market
British products
Raw materials
supplier
Where
finished
Panama Canal