After a while, when taking on huge empires in battle wasn't working anymore, military leaders began taking over territories village by village. Every once and a while a village would go down easy, but heavy resistance was encountered pretty much the entire journey. But no matter how hard it was to continue conquering land, many military powers continued to try to do so, no matter how great their losses were.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Colonization of Africa
European leaders from numerous places all over Europe had intense rivalries over the newly important land of Africa. They spent 25 years splitting up they land and at first, it seemed like this method would be successful. However, everyone just ended up fighting over the land again and things got very bloody. Some wars over certain parts of land even lasted decades, taking huge tolls on the military forces of each territory. Not all negotiation were through fighting, though. There were still a good amount of peace treaties, but, predictably, a lot of the peace treaties ended up just stirring up another war when the territories realized that they didn't agree with the treaty after all.
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By "heavy resistance", do you mean from Africans or from other European militaries?
ReplyDeleteBy "heavy resistance" i mean that any piece of land that a European leader tried to seize had to be fought very hard for. Sometimes the previous land owners were African, sometimes they were other European forces, but a huge amount of casualties were usually sustained by both sides.
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