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America
17c : Caribbean, Virginia, New England (Plymouth, 1620)
→ raw materials ← manufactured products
abolition slave 1807
1775-83: War of Independence
Canada
1756-63: French and Indian war
1867: Canada = dominion
India
1600: East India Company (trading: spices, silk, cotton, tea, opium)
1857: Indian Mutiny
58: under direct control of the british crown
Queen Victoria : Empress of India
china
1839-42: Opium War
→ control Hong-kong + trade Canton and Shanghai
Australia and New Zealand
1770: James Cook claimed eastern coast of Australia
1829: Au become official colony
late 18th: NZ colonisation
19th c: intensification, Maori Wars
Africa
1815-1914 : imperial Century
19th c: buy Cape Town
1880-1910 : the Scramble for Africa
protecting route
Boer Wars : Union of south Africa
old / new commonwealth
white / non white
new: crown, economic, little autonomy
1949 : voluntary
56 member
decolonisation
30s: old commonwealth
47: India
60s: African
Empire
¼ world pop
under brit rule 700milli → 5miilio