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The Rhodes Colossus, Striding from Cape Town to Cairo, cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne from Punch magazine, 10 December 1892. The image shows the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) astride Africa in illustration of his dream...

An illustration by Adalbert von Rössler of the delegates at the Berlin Conference 1884-5 which set some of the ground rules for the Scramble for Africa. From the German publication Über Land und Meer.

A cover from a 1905 edition of Puck magazine showing a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941). The cartoon is suggesting the German monarch's interest in Morocco in North Africa, epitomised in the Moroccan Crises of 1905-6 and 1911...

A cartoon by J.M. Staniforth of the Fashoda Incident of 1898 when France and Britain almost went to war over their competing claims for control of the Upper Nile.

An 1898 French magazine cover showing Jean-Baptiste Marchand, who led an expedition to Fashoda in Sudan to claim it for France. This episode during the Scramble for Africa created the Fashoda Incident when France and Britain almost went to...

A photograph taken on 31 March 1905 showing Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) parading through Tangier, Morocco on horseback. The Kaiser's presence was part of the Moroccan Crises which marred French and German relations prior to the First World...

A photograph showing the arrival of the Anglo-Egyptian force led by General Herbert Kitchener at Fashoda in the Sudan. This was during the Fashoda Incident of 1898 when France and Britain almost went to war over their competing claims for...

To many historians, the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century CE has always been viewed as the end of the ancient world and the onset of the Middle Ages, often improperly called the Dark Ages, despite Petrarch's assertion. Since...

Imperial expansion has been one of the most significant forces shaping world history, transforming regional states into vast, multiethnic empires that connected distant peoples, economies, and cultures. From the rise of the Achaemenid Empire...

The long-term goal of the Bolsheviks, who took power by force in Russia in November 1917, was a fairer society where workers and peasants were not exploited by wealthy capitalists. The more immediate consequences, though, of the Bolshevik...