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The colonial empires - Coggle Diagram
The colonial empires
1914
United States
Pacific
Hawaii
Philippines
Latin America
Puerto Rico
Panama
Cuba
Japan
Korea
Manchuria
Russo-Japonese War of 1904-1905
Russia
After the war agaisnt Japan
Siberia
Abandoned Manchuria
Central Asai
Other countries also had colonies in Africa
Germany
Togo
Cameroon
Namibia
Tanzania
Belgium
Congo
Portugal
Angola
Mozambique
Spain
Part of Sahara
Equatorial Guinea
North of Morocco
Italy
Eritrea
Part of Samalia
Libya
Largest ones
France
Great britian
Occupation and administration of the colonies
Specific value for colonising
Explotation colonies
Had economic value
Indigenous population were governed by a white minority
They exploited the area economically
Example
India
Settler colonies
Had a socio-economic value
Majority were of the population were inmigrants
Majority were of the population were inmigrants
Colonies enjoyed a certain governmental autonomy
Example
Canada
Australia
New Zeland
Protectorates
Areas of strategic interest
Who controlled
But under supervision of the colonising power
Defense of the area
Foreign policy
Indigenous population maintained their own government and
administration
Example
Morocco
Egypt
Stages in the colonization of an area
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Political and administrative control
Executed by a small group of europeans
Governator and high-level servants
Administration
Military commanders
In charge of maintaining order by controlling indigenous
rebellions
Occupation by conquest
Colonising power used its military advantage over the country it wanted to conquest
Organisation of the colonial economy
Exploitation of the natural resources and of indigenous
population
To supply the colonising power with raw materials and sources of
energy
Colony bought the manufactured products in the colonising
country
Other industrialised countries
Began building their colonial empires beetwen 1870 and 1914