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- - - - The increase in production made some industrialised countries to look for new markets outside Europe
- - - - They had had a socio-economic value
      - The emigrants from the colonising country formed the majority of the population
      - They were considered overseas provinces and enjoyed a certain governmental autonomy
    - - There were areas of strategic interest
      - The indigenous population maintained its own government and administration
      - The colonising country controlled foreign policy and defended the area
    - - They had economic value
      - A white minority governed the indigenous people and exploited the area economically
  - - - It was executed by a small group of Europeans
        
        The governor and high-level civil servants organised the administration
        
        The military commanders were in charge of maintaining order by controlling indigenous rebellions
    - - Natural resources and indigenous people were exploited in order to supply the colonising power with raw materials and sources of energy
      - After that, the colony bought the products manufactured in the colonising country
    - - Military advantage was used over the peoples or countries that wanted to be conquer.
- - - - It had various results
        
        It resulted on the imposition of a single crop and extraction economy
        
        It left the indigenous people without their traditional resources and means of survival
    - - The colonies had economic dependence of their colonising country and this led to the huge differences we can see today between developed and developing countries
  - - - As the The birth rate remained constant, the population grow and because of the lack of resources for everyone, people suffered from starvation and poverty
- - - - It happened between the British and the French that wanted to occupy Sudan, at the end the British won
    - - A war between the British and the colonists from the United Provinces (Boers) that the British won over the area of the Cape, in South Africa, which was rich in in gold and diamonds
    - - the European countries interested in controlling the Congo agreed to delegate control of the region to the King of Belgium, Leopold I
      - The decision that they made accelerated the process of the division of Africa
      - They imposed a procedure for European countries that wanted to acquire African territory
        
        To militarily occupy the area
  - - - The Boxers was created, which was a Chinese secret society that wanted to expel the foreigners
        
        They killed over 300 foreigners
        
        They besieged the European embassies in Peking for two months
    - - It arrived in August 1901 and defeated the Boxers easily
      - Foreign troops were imposed permanently in the region to protect their ambassadors
      - The Chinese had to pay 330 million dollars in compensation
    - - Great Britain gained control of Hong Kong
      - Shanghai and Canton became European colonies and they didn't have to follow Chinese laws
      - Christian missionaries had the right to preach
      - The tax for foreign products was only 5%
  - - - In the colonies
        
        The indigenous people revolted against European exploitation and the disregard for their traditional cultural values (these revolts failed)
      - In the colonising countries
        
        Socialist parties protested against what they considered unjustified abuse
        
        Missionaries also protested against unnecessary abuse and exploitation