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Substantial corrections to Ottoman Empire, Africa, and the Pacific: 10:41, 22 March 2007: 1,425 × 625 (66 KB) Roke~commonswiki {{Information |Description=Map of major world powers by year, derived from public domain animated map on wikipedia.
Modern colonial empires first emerged with a race of exploration between the then most advanced European maritime powers, Portugal and Spain, during the 15th century. [2] The initial impulse behind these dispersed maritime empires and those that followed was trade, driven by the new ideas and the capitalism that grew out of the European ...
The colonial map was redrawn following the defeat of the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire after the World War I (1914–18). Colonies from the defeated empires were transferred to the newly founded League of Nations , which itself redistributed it to the victorious powers as "mandates" .
Map of colonial and land-based empires throughout the world in 1914 Imperial powers in 1945 After World War I (1914–1918), the victorious Allies divided up the German colonial empire and much of the Ottoman Empire between themselves as League of Nations mandates , grouping these territories into three classes according to how quickly it was ...
Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Trial by Fire: 2001: 1914: The Last Express: 1997: 1914, 24–27 July: Adventure game set on the Orient Express just before World War 1: Tannenberg: 2019: 1914: World War I: Wing Nuts: Battle in the Sky: 1995: 1914: World War I: Valiant Hearts: The Great War: 2014: 1914–1917: World War I: Instruments of Chaos ...
Australia – Commonwealth of Australia (Dominion of the British Empire) Capital: Melbourne: Widely recognized independent state. Australia is autonomous but still dependent from the United Kingdom. Australia had two external territories: Territory of New Guinea (League of Nations Mandate from 1914) Norfolk Island (from 1 July 1914) Papua
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Sid Meier's Colonization is a video game by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier.It was developed by MicroProse's Chapel Hill development studio and was released in 1994. It is a turn-based strategy game themed on the early European colonization of the New World, starting in 1492 and lasting until 1850.