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Timeline of European Colonization of Africa: Media
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African colonization changed history—and the map.
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Map of Africa from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published...
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Early Portuguese explorers of Africa included Gil Eanes, Dinis Dias, Diogo Gomes,...
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The Cantino planisphere (or Cantino world map) is the earliest surviving map showing...
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French forces under Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte defeating the Mamluk army in Egypt in...
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The Admiral House, Simon's Town, Cape of Good Hope, 1844, watercolor, gouache,...
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1975.4.1304
The Senate of Liberia, c. 1856, drawn by Robert K. Griffin.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC4-4908)
The capital of the Asante empire, Kumasi, located on western Africa's Gold Coast,...
From The Countries of the World by Robert Brown, 1876
Ethiopian Emperor Menilek II surveying his troops at the Battle of Adwa on March...
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Boer and British troops at the Battle of Belmont, November 23, 1899, during the South...
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European penetration into Southern Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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French colonial troops in North Africa work on medium tanks during World War I, c....
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Map showing the colonization of Africa by European countries in the early 1900s....
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Italian prisoners of war captured during the North Africa campaigns, c. 1941.
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First session of the United Nations General Assembly, January 10, 1946, at the Central...
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