Before the middle of the century, European colonialism had reached almost all corners of the globe (the first permanent English settlement in Australia in 1735, in New Zealand in 1749). However, the forces of the individual states were not sufficient to collide in every colony, as was the habit of provide equipment and / or training to the armed enemies of their enemies, bringing the wars in the world.
Americas diseases and guerrilla
Britain was one of the most dynamic and colonial powers certainly was the most powerful nation in Europe in the New World, given the almost total monopoly avutovi for some time. In the 40s
eradicating Shawnee and outposts came to the southern shores of Lake Erie. Simultaneously, a Dutch mission contacted the head Adario Huron, which is established a collaboration.
Some Dutch settlers would be established in the Great Lakes region just outside the borders of the Huron and would in exchange provided the best technology of the time. The federal government then adopted
metallurgy, weapons in Europe, was even built a small frigate to patrol the Lake Huron and some particularly enterprising clan began to abandon shifting cultivation. Incredibly, for the first time, no particular disease came with the settlers.
And in the end, the Andes, the European diseases came. It is thought to have been brought by smugglers who regularly traded with the peoples in the far south of the Inca empire. The first to feel the effects were the Mapuche, which broke out between the flu and diphtheria. Typhoid instead struck the north of the Empire and it spread quickly. Among 1740 and 1760, 84% of the Andean population was affected by epidemics and few survived. Less was the heavy death toll in the Amazon regions of the empire.
And it was thanks to this huge crisis that Britain was easy game: in 1745, 3000 men landed and captured less than three months in cities like Arequipa, Puno and Chalhuanca, arriving at Lake Titicaca. The Inca, who was trying to hold together an empire in shambles, whose socio-economic fabric was in disarray, would capitulate easily, but the farsighted minister Alexander Forstmer stopped the hunger for English gold: he actually had realized that the huge appropriasi amount of Inca gold would lead to a large monetary crisis in Europe. Therefore, the conditions of peace which he dictated to General Cole was to keep the conquered territories, an annual tribute to the English crown and the full opening to the UK market, so what, this, which only worsened the situation of the local population. However, the opening of trade also followed the French interests in that area: it was thanks to the French expeditions in the '50s, that the empire began a major arms trafficking, which were armed armies on the borders with the British territories. Later, under the direction of French engineers, the fortresses of the Empire were adapted to the defense with firearms.
The Aztec Empire, however, has always been open to foreign influences, with the first war with France, sought help from England and Holland. Thanks Huitzilin Emperor, the first viable wagon was struck by between Mexico and Mazatlan, artisans learned from him directly controlled metallurgy, almost all the warriors armed with firearms and all of Mexico with those of metal. He also began breeding his own horses, both for transport and for the meat. With these new technologies, huey tlatoani, just as smallpox diminished, he could easily conquer the people still independent of the isthmus.
wars in Africa
In Congo, around 1750, the borders were the most fragile could exist: the kingdoms of Luba and Lunda, coalizzatisi against the kingdom, had lost a first battle to Kasuku, but threatened a new invasion: the grievances had been born since the beginning of the slave trade.
Thus, the Manikongo asked the intervention of the Dutch, its top trading partners in a few years reorganized the Congolese army on the European model, which inflicted a resounding defeat enemies and the two kingdoms led to the Christianization of the most high class. In return, the kingdom became a protectorate of the Netherlands and was ceded the southern coast of the kingdom, a strip of land conquered an octogenarian before, between Namibe and the establishment of Aardenrburgh. Fearing this strengthening
Dutch in Africa and not wanting to lose his own, a better partner in the Gulf of Guinea, Sweden took action, accepting invitations dell'oba of Benin continues to put his hand to his army. Already armed by the Swedish War Five Years after the intervention of the Scandinavian officers, was reorganized with new rifles and cannons, and the fleet received a dozen ships captured pirates. With these improvements, the armies of Benin undertook a punitive expedition against the emerging kingdom of Sokoto, destruction and defeated the allies of Borno, sacking the capital Ngazargamu.
In eastern Africa, however, was in Sweden to worry: with a strong presence on the coast and inside, threatened the Federation of Zanj (formerly led by Kilwa) and Empire Mutapa. For the first, the Ottoman Empire and Granada sold weapons and ships, but did not intervene, the local sultan attempted to conquer Zanzibar, but the British defeated him.
At Shona, however, thought the same England, Sweden's friend but do not like it too strong in that area, the empire, after years of civil war had managed to regain possession of Sofala and hunt merchants Arab, sharing the gold of Zimbabwe won huge amounts of weapons, which deter attacks in Sweden and Kazembe.
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