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- - - - because of their strategic and economic value
      - became the scene of political rivalry
      - between the colonising powers for dominion of territories
- - - - strategic location
      - international prestige
    - - because of emigration
    - - required geographic expeditions to unknown areas of the world
- - - - they compreted with each other to gain control of colonies in Africa and Asia
  - - - begun to establish colonies centuries before
      - Britain gained control of strategic locations
        
        Gibraltar
        
        Malta
        
        Ceylon
        
        Maldives
    - - was not as extensive as the British Empire
      - It included large areas in north-west Africa and the island of Madagascar
    - - Portugal colonised Angola and Mozambique
      - Belgium colonised the Congo
      - Germany colonised South-West Africa, Togo, Cameroon and Tanzania
      - pain colonised the north of Morocco, part of the Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
- - - - the colonising powers wanted compete political, economic and territorial control
    - - Occupation by conquest
      - Political and administrative control:
      - Organisation of the colonial economy
    - - Settler colonies
        
        had a socio-economic value
      - Protectorates
        
        were areas of strategic interest
      - Exploitation colonies
        
        had economic value