Chapter 1023     College

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After Zhu Youjian accepted Catherine, he readily agreed to the Portuguese request, but Portugal wanted to assign Lisbon to the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the Portuguese countries were not in Lisbon but in The Hague. In order not to be destroyed by the Warsaw Pact, Portugal agreed to the Ming Dynasty's request.

After seeing Portugal give the princess to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, other European countries also copied the rules and sent the princesses of their own countries to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

They are the Holy God Roman Empire princess, Norwegian princess, Danish princess, Swedish princess, and Greek princess...

In addition to sending princesses to several European countries, North Korea's Lu Aiguo actually sent the Korean princess to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youjian didn't have many concubines in the harem, so this time he refused everyone and accepted all these princesses.

However, he did not let the princesses enter the original harem, but built another palace.

These foreign princesses Zhu Youjian could not let them be imperial concubines and queens in the current world pattern, but could only be ordinary concubines.

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The United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Spain all had become world overlords, and even the little Portugal was once very powerful.

Now they have all been trampled by the Ming Dynasty, and three of the powerful empires were destroyed by the Ming Dynasty.

The Dutch colonial expansion began in the 16th century. At that time, Europe had just opened up new routes, and the improvement of the shipbuilding industry and the introduction of the compass made Europe's maritime strength continue to increase.

With its good geographical location, the Netherlands vigorously developed maritime trade and eventually became a world trade power in the 17th century.

With financial support, Dutch colonial expansion also entered a stage of rapid development.

Unlike other colonial countries, Dutch colonial expansion was relatively civilized.

The Netherlands rose due to trade, so the main method of the Netherlands in participating in colonial competition was to establish monopoly trading companies.

Using trade means to strengthen economic aggression against the colonies, this method of the Netherlands was used by subsequent colonial countries, and eventually became the economic purpose of European colonial expansion.

In addition to establishing trading companies, the Netherlands seized the Cape of Good Hope in Africa in Portugal, and established colonial strongholds in the coastal areas of India, including Malacca and Ceylon in its colonial territory.

In the 17th century, Dutch colonists also carried out colonial rule in Taiwan, China for a short period of time, causing a lot of trouble to the Taiwanese.

However, it was eventually driven away by China's national hero Zheng Chenggong.

Dutch colonial expansion laid the foundation for the development of European capitalism.

Amsterdam in the 17th century was the busiest port and the most developed commercial center in the world at that time.

The prosperity of trade caused a large amount of capital to flow in, and the Netherlands became the only one in the capitalist world. It is known as the "sea coachman".

But the good times did not last long. By the end of the 17th century, under the attack of three British-Dutch wars, the Dutch maritime colonial hegemony was seized by Britain.

The British colonial expansion began in the 16th century and reached its peak in the early 20th period, and lasted for four centuries.

During these four centuries, Britain continued to absorb wealth from the colonies, gradually strengthened its comprehensive national strength, and eventually became an empire that never sets.

The colonial expansion of Britain was mainly divided into three periods.

The first period was the overseas colonial period from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

During this period, the main purpose was to accumulate capital in the original period.

The targets of expansion are North American and Australian continents.

In 1733, Britain first established 13 colonies on the North American continent.

From 1689 to 1763, four wars were fought for colonies between Britain and France, known in history as the century-old British-French War.

In these four battles, each ended with British victory. The number of British colonies also increased significantly.

After the Seven Years' War, Britain acquired all the territory east of Canada and the Mississippi River.

Tobago, Dominican and Grenada regions were also incorporated into their colonial systems.

The second stage of British colonial expansion was between the 18th and mid-late 19th centuries.

This stage is the stage when Britain competes for the Eurasian continent.

After the Industrial Revolution, Britain began to plunder industrial raw material sites and commodity markets from the Eurasian continent.

The Indian Peninsula became the main focus of British colonialism.

At the same time, in Africa, Britain also stepped up colonial control. This stage was the golden time for the development of British capitalism.

The third stage of British colonial expansion was to compete for African colonies. During this stage, Britain killed heavily in Africa, bringing serious disasters to Africa.

By the beginning of the 20th century, the world's territory was basically divided up, with Britain accounting for the largest share.

With these three colonial expansions, Britain became the Empire of the Sun never set.

Portugal's colonial expansion activities opened the door to European foreign aggression.

The development of modern history in the West also began with the colonial expansion of Portugal.

In 1415, the Portuguese began to occupy the Ceuta region of Morocco.

Afterwards, the Portuguese expedition team kept sailing south, hoping to open up a new route to the east.

Because at this time the Silk Road, which originally led to the East, had been blocked by the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Economic exchanges between China and the West are completely paralyzed. In order to obtain more porcelain and silk from the East, the West has to open up a new route.

In 1487, Dias of Portugal began to travel south along the west coast of Africa. He led a fleet to the southernmost tip of Africa and named the southernmost plot of African land the Cape of Good Hope.

This is a major breakthrough for the Portuguese to explore new routes.

By 1497, Portuguese explorer Da Gama led a larger fleet to bypass the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in Karikut, India.

This is the first time in human history that bypassed the Cape of Good Hope, the Portuguese opened a new route to the East.

With the opening of the new route, Portugal began colonial expansion.

It focuses its expansion in Asia and Africa.

In 1500, the Portuguese colonists included Brazil into his colonial system. In 1557, Macau in China was occupied by Portugal.

However, Portugal's colonial expansion did not bring strong national strength to Portugal.

Although it plundered a large amount of wealth, the Portuguese aristocracy purchased all the plundered gold and bought British and French luxury goods, causing funds to flow into other countries.

Portugal, who was immersed in the dreamland of luxury goods, eventually lost its status as a colonial power.

Italy's colonial expansion was a little later than other European countries.

Because Italy's unification was late and there was no strength like Britain and France, the Italian colonies were not as many as Britain and France.

Italy's colonial expansion began in 1889. In that year, Italy began to colonize Somalia in East Africa. It was the closest colony to Italy. Later, Italy took Eritrea into its pocket. This colony was regarded as a proud colony by Italy. Because Eritrea has many cultural relics and monuments, this also brought great cultural and material wealth to Italy.

In 1911, Italy and the Ottoman Turkish Empire fought a war, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire was defeated. Italy acquired the Libyan colony and called it "the fourth coast of Italy."

While Italy is expanding outward, it is also eyeing China.

In 1900, Italy and seven other countries launched a war of aggression against China, known in history as the "Eight-Nation Alliance War of Invasion of China".

Later, because of China's active peacekeeping, Italy also acquired China's Tianjin Port as a trading distribution center.

In addition to the above areas, Italy also captured many colonies in Africa. Especially after World War I, Italy, as the victorious country, obtained colonies of the defeated country in Africa, greatly increasing Italy's sphere of influence.

Italy's colonial expansion brought serious disasters to the people of the colonies.

However, the Italian army's poor fighting nature also cost Italy a great price.

During World War II, Britain repeatedly defeated the Italian army on the battlefield in North Africa, laying the foundation for Italy's surrender.
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