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The European colonial conquest was focused mainly on Asia and Africa from 1750 1900.  It was affected by the Industrial Revolution.  Many new players included the United States, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Japan.  The beginning of the second wave European Empires was founded on military use or the threat of it.  India and Indonesia interacted with Europe for trade.  There was planned conquest in Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asia.  The hardest places to conquer were the places that didn't have a central society and formal state structure.  European settlement and diseases killed a lot of the Native-Australians and New Zealanders. Japan took over Taiwan and Korea the way that Europe takes over a society.  Russia and the United Stated kept on growing.  Liberia was settled by U.S. slaves that were set free.  Ethiopia and Thailand proficiently avoided colonization.  Societies of Asia and Africa created many responses to the European threat.  There were many different colonial economies.  This included wage labor, cash-crop agriculture, coercion, colonial rule, and forced labor and the power of the state. Eventually, women ended up having to do more work than men.  There was also some identity and cultural changes in the colonial era, all with things that had to do with education, religion, and race and tribe.