Imperialism, I believe you mean, is a foreign policy intended to build and maintain an empire by controlling territories outside of your nation.
samuel
imerialism
what was a major effect you mean? It is that it has lead to much unrest in the political sense, not strong economies when the europeans left, and it has made most of Africa dirt poor.
European expansionism was successful in Africa due to sophistication of weaponry and Europes monopoly of the slave trade.
Kid, the answers are in your textbook, quit being a lazy person and find them.
It really wasn't during imerialism, it was more they took over china WITH imperialism! They took it over mainly because chine was somewhat smaller that them in the Economy, military, or just politcally.
Ethiopia did never gain its independence. It has always been so. And it was the only county in Africa which has always (always is a bit relative; of course you can go 1000s of years back and the situation was different, but i guess your question was aimed to know more about the europe countries occupying african areas during imerialism) been independent.