What motivated european nations to colonize africa and asia in the 1800’s

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During that time frame, Africa faced imperialist aggression from Europe, as well as: diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. African villages started various forms of resistance against the attempt to colonize their countries and impose foreign domination as well.

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

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