A History of World Societies:
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A History of World Societies Value
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Analyze the larger developments and continuities within and across chapters.
Explain the transitions in Africa from the slave trade to legitimate trade to colonialism in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. How was Europe’s Industrial Revolution related to these transitions?
Europeans had been visiting Africa’s coasts for four hundred years before colonizing the entire continent in thirty years in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why hadn’t they colonized Africa earlier, and what factors allowed them to do it then?
What were the causes of the great migration in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century?