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In 1871, in response to ... The French made their last major colonial gains after World War I, ... Map of the colonies in French West Africa in 1935.
1871–1918: World War I: 1914–1918: ... The largest colonial enterprises were in Africa, ... Map of the world showing the participants in World War I.
It gave an impetus to German assertiveness as a world economic and military power, aimed at competing with France and the British Empire for world power. German colonial rule in Africa 1884–1914 was an expression of nationalism and moral superiority that was justified by constructing an image of the natives as "Other".
Historic map of Brandenburg-Prussia showing the Gold Coast colonies (in modern Ghana) (top left). When the German Empire came into existence in 1871, [1] none of its constituent states had any overseas colonies.
From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire existed mainly in the Americas and Asia. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the second French colonial empire existed mainly in Africa and Asia. France had about 80 colonies throughout its history, the second most colonies in the world behind only the British Empire. [1]
This is a list of sovereign states in the 1870s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1870 and 31 December 1879.It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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".
The home and colonial populations of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Because of the trend of increasing world population over time, absolute population figures are for some purposes less relevant for comparison between different empires than their respective shares of the world population at the time ...