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Watch The World A Television History online: Episode 18 The West and the Wider World: 1500 - 1800

The expansion of Europe through navigation and trade including the empires of Spain and Portugal and the beginning of the British Empire. Shown in this episode is a brief sketch of the European relationship with Africa, concentrating on Dutch and British settlement in South Africa, and on the "factories" further north.

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