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The simultaneous expansion of European powers overseas during the last quarter of the 19th century brought them into frequent collisions at remote points all over Africa and Asia.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Imperialism and Colonialism

The last quarter of the 19th century compressed the acquisition of nearly an entire globe's unclaimed territory into barely two decades, guaranteeing that rival European ambitions would collide wherever their frontiers of expansion met.

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  • Africa: The Congo Dispute and the Berlin Conference
  • The Fashoda Incident: Britain and France on the Nile
  • The Scramble's Wider African Flashpoints
  • Asia: The Great Game and Rivalries in the Far East

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