European nations benefited from their African colonies in several ways, including access to valuable Natural Resources, new markets for their goods, and opportunities for economic and political expansion. Additionally, colonies provided a source of cheap labor and military manpower for the European powers.
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The new African nations tended to create governments based on European models.
Well after the African Moors made slaves of the Europeans.
Most of the European nations were too exhausted and devastated at the end of World II to continue supporting their colonies. Also, the colonies realized that their colonizers were no longer able to protect them as they originally had.
trade possibilites.
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cheap manpower
The colonizers used the resources of their colonies to grow their own economies.
Countries that were colonized by European nations had the benefit of a military presence that less developed nations did not have access to. However, these same nations had to fight for independence from the colonizing nation to benefit from the resources that were previously taken away and sent to the homeland.
Mercantilist theories caused European nations to abandon their overseas colonies.
The Monroe Doctrine asserted that European powers should not intervene in the political affairs of independent nations in the Americas. It essentially permitted the United States to act as a protector of countries in Latin America against European colonization and interference. This helped establish the United States as a dominant power in the region.
savage and dirty
Ethiopia
The cause of the war involved European nations competing for control of colonies was boundary disputes.
It increased competition and tension among a number of European countries
Stockpiling
Mercantilism theories did not cause European nations to abandon their overseas colonies. Mercantilism, in fact, motivated colonial expansion and war.