IDST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sub-Saharan Africa, Modernization Theory, Periphery Countries
15 Dec 2016
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The process of decolonization started after wwi. It was not completed (in the case of south sudan) until 2 years ago. Decolonization is when a colony is freed from a colonial overseer. For colonies of spain and portugal, this occurred in the early 19th century. They gave the governing power over to settler elites". They then established control over the newly formed state. 100 years later (after wwi) key states started losing their colonized area. For example, the russian empire, the ottoman empire, and the austro- These areas then formed states an area with a government controlling it. France and britain divided up the middle east in 1916. Around this time, boundaries were established by people such as gertrude bell. Nationalism was the idea that people within a specific ethnic group, who spoke the same language, and shared a similar fundamental social like made up a.
