The total number of slaves imported by the Portuguese is estimated at around 4.2 million- excluding those who met their fatal end during the middle passage- and their economy dramatically flourished during their time as the leader of transatlantic trade7. ... France was a predominant figure in the trading and exploitation of African slaves, in the ten years spanning 1720-30 French ships took over 85,0008 enslaved Africans to the plantations in the Americas. ... The centrality of the transatlantic slave trade to the economic growth in France was notably highlighted by C.L.R. ... The French Revo...

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There was no government that was representative of the people established until the Age of Revolution. ... Without the events of European exploration and expansion, the emergence of the global economy, and the Age of Revolution, the world would not be as modern as it is today. ...

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The end result of Imperialism/ colonialism had a negative effect on every aspect of African society. ... When World War 1 ended, African soldiers often received little or no compensations for lost limbs or battle injuries (www.dw.de). ... The British ultimatum of 1890 was imposed upon King Carlos 1 of Portugal and Portuguese colonialism in Africa ended (www.oxfordbibliographies.com). ... In French colonies they allowed properly trained Africans to assume subordinate posts, and in special circumstances become French citizens. ... In Africa they are used to describe the different stages of Euro...

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A revolution in ocean-going technology gave Europeans the ability to get continuous access to remote peoples and move them against their will over very long distances. ... Just as Brazil overlapped on the northern system by drawing on the Bight of Benin, the English, French, and Dutch carried some slaves from northern Angola into the Caribbean. ...

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" Consequently, if a revolution were to occur, it would be initiated from above and not from below. ... We can understand from this why there were no revolutions in Africa against the regime, but only against those who administered it poorly, i.e., unworthy princes. In addition, there were, of course, also palace revolutions. ... His power and authority were so great that the day of his betrayal brought an end to the kingdom of Cayor. ... But for reasons connected to the preindustrial nature of Africa, such as the dispersion of the population into villages, for example, they could not eff...

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This ever increasing exploitation of the serfs reduced them by the end of the seventeenth century and had so impoverished serfs that they were forced to give up many of their former and civil rights. ... Feudalism was given a huge blow in Western Europe by the French Revolution and Napoleon. ... Moreover, Russia's defeat of the French Grand Army allowed serfdom to continue in Russia. ...

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Britain realized that a strong naval force could counter the benefits received by Spain, Portugal, France and the Netherlands from their overseas colonial trade, and energies needed directing towards developing strategic naval bases. ... British Colonial Rule 1655-1838) Being occupied by the greater distractions of Ireland and Europe, British interests in the Caribbean remained at a low level until the end of the English Civil War and Charles I's execution in 1649. ...

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