During the nineteenth century, European nations took over North African countries and made them colonies. France controlled Algeria and Tunisia, Britain controlled western Sahara, and Portugal took over Libya.
This was the act of taking over another territory by a different country. This was the act that the British and other Europeans used to control most of the world.
They would take over the political and the economic leadership of the nations that they gain control of.
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