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Unit IntroductionFueled by greed, arrogance, and rivalries, Western nations, powered by their industrial might, subjugated the peoples of Africa and Asia to build vast global empires during the 19th century. The competition between the empires soon erupted into a war of unprecedented horror which would shock and scar the world leaving tens of millions dead, wounded, impoverished, and defeated.
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Edward Linley Sambourne depicted British imperialist Cecil Rhodes as ‘The Rhodes Colossus’ in a Punch cartoon of 1892.
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