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Why didn't Russia colonize in the scramble for Africa?
You got your facts wrong.
The peak of the scramble for Africa was the Berlin Conference of 1878.
Alaska was sold to the USA in 1867.
Russia had (and has) great resources, but always had (and has) ...
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What was Portugal and Spain's primary export which sparked their trade with Africa in the early 15th century?
This answer may need expanding on, but Vogt (1975) is a good article for Portuguese trade presence in Africa in 1480-1540 and it says:
Portuguese ships hauled cargoes of copper, textiles, cowries, ...
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What was Portugal and Spain's primary export which sparked their trade with Africa in the early 15th century?
Portuguese trade with West Africa wasn't based on direct trade, as in our understanding of mercantilist economic history, where produce from Portugal were exported to Africa.
To increase its national ...
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Who coined the term Bantustan for the first time and why did they use the Persian suffix?
Probably first "Bantu Hindustan" by J.S. Franklin, then shortened either by him or others to "Bantustan":
J.S. Franklin (1949):
back of and beyond our Bantu Hindustan there lies ...
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Why didn't Russia colonize in the scramble for Africa?
During this time Russia was already engaged in a colonial enterprise on a staggering scale - the conquest of Central Asia. Conquering and then digesting such a vast territory more or less took up most ...
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Why did ZANU (instead of ZAPU) come to power after the Rhodesian Bush War?
You answered your question yourself:
Secondly, ZANU's leader Robert Mugabe was Shona, who were by far the largest of Zimbabwe's black ethnicities. ZAPU's leader Joshua Nkomo was Ndebele, who were an ...
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Did Africans defeat Europeans in battle between 1850 and 1950?
Basuto gun war was the first defeat of an European power in a war against Africans
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