Colonial Rule Over Time

During this time period  European nations such as France, Britain, and a unified Germany established or increased control over their colonial system. For instance France would show increasing power over Indochina while Britain increased state control in India in place of the East India Company. Finally Germany quickly sated their imperialist ambitions by establishing control over larges swaths of Africa and in the Pacific such as the Bismarck Islands. Meanwhile Spain and Portugal began to lose control of their South and Central American colonies to successful independence movements.