POLS 2080 Lecture 4: Week 3 lecture 2 pols 2080

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2080
• Professor: Steffi Hamann

Document Summary

1420-1600: seafaring exploration: age of the spanish/portuguese, vasco de gama + columbus, europe had just come out of devastating plague edpidemic, killing hundreds of thousands. Survivors were scrambling to re-sort their life: new hunger for goods (goals, textiles), giving rise to european expansion, christian missionaries were also very important, crossing oceans to convert others, both missionaries/explorers created strongholds in south america and western. 1780-1870: informal control: also known as the 2nd british empire (1st be was colonies in na- once. Germany used to claim territories in africa- but when germany lost. Wwi- treaty of versailles made them give them away, they were split by other colonial powers: ex. Cameroon was split and given to france and great britain. 1945-1960s: decolonization: india reached independence in 1947, african colonies, most reached independence in 1960s, pink areas (eastern europe/central asia) these areas gained independence with demise of soviet union.