Why were the major European powers scrambling to seize new territory in the late 1800s?
Which ones where the imperialists counries by 1800s and why?
Yes Yamasee became a colonial European nation in the 1800s.
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East Africa was able to resist European conquest
The way European colonists carved up Africa in the 1800s led to civil strife because it turned tribes against each other and forced them to lose their sense of unity.
European nations didn't gain any territory in the Middle East in the 1800s - Britain effectively took over control of Egypt in 1882, but Egypt is in North Africa rather than the Middle East, which remained under Ottoman control until well into WW1, in the 20th century. Whoever set the question is mistaken about events in the region during the 1800s.
Which ones where the imperialists counries by 1800s and why?
They were losing their territory. Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines were taken from Western European rule in 1898.
The Louisiana Territory which was purchased by the US in 1803.
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Egypt only straddles two continents: Africa and Asia. Historically, the Khedivite Rulers of Egypt controlled several Greek Islands in the mid-1800s, but this was the last time that Egypt had any European territory.