Please tell me the history of European colonization.

From 1442, the Portuguese used Berbers as slaves (in Portugal), and the Spanish began to transport African blacks into America from 1502.

The demand for slave trade prompted these two countries and Britain, the Netherlands, France, Denmark and other emerging capitalist countries to build many trading posts on the West African coast, selling slaves, ivory, gold and peppers ("seeds of heaven"), which was then called Ivory Coast (now C? te d 'Ivoire) and another name was Seed Coast.

However, because the coast of West Africa is inaccessible and the local climate is not suitable for Europeans to live in, Europe's colonization of Africa in the following centuries was limited to a few coastal strongholds. From the naming of these colonies by European countries-Gold Coast, Ivory Coast and Slave Coast-we can see that the colonies in West Africa are basically resource-predatory colonies.

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The "destructive mission" of the colony is mainly manifested in the destruction of the traditional social and economic structure of the colony. However, due to the different political and economic conditions of the suzerain country, the historical situation, colonial objects, natural ecological conditions and social groups of each colony are different, and the impact on the colonies is very different in quality.

As a result of colonization, the disintegration and destruction of the traditional economic structure of American western colonies and British Indian colonies were enormous. However, in tropical Africa, most of the colonial areas have maintained their original agricultural and social structures, except for cash crops (8% in French West Africa and 5% in sub-Saharan Africa).

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