Chapter 18

Destiny Williams 

Professor Patricia Andrews

World History 2

March 2018

                                   Chapter 18:Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania 

• Atlantic slave trade diminished over the whole nineteenth century.   
• Europeans began to look at slaves as raw material, as opportunity for investments, as a market for industrial products, a field for exploration, opportunity to spread Christianity.
• Not until the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
• No major European power should be allowed to control the headwaters of thew Nile on Egypt depended.
• British forces move south from Egypt met a French expedition moving northeast.
• Scholars have sometimes argued that the scramble for Africa was driven less by economic interests.
• European rivalries for territory involved Great Britain.
• British authorities hung people and flogged dozens of people.
• French civilians building a small railway near the harbor, dug up parts of Muslim cemetery.
• French bombarded Arab quarter of the city.