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The Europeanization of Asia, Africa, India and the Middle East was a result of the industrial revolution in Europe that led to mass migrations of Europeans to new parts of the world. "The thin ribbons of European settlement that existed in 1763 had stretched by 1914 to cover entire continents." (p.509) Despite European success' in conquering much of the known world, there were some challenges to colonial domination that faced the Europeans in Russia, Asia, Africa, India and the Middle East.
The Europeanization of Russia, on the surface, did not face many challenges. Leaders such as Peter the Great and later Catherine the great welcomed European ideals and principals and mimicked them in order to build a stronger Russia. The problem was, however, that this Europeanization of Russia was limited to the upper class causing a rift within Russian society that ultimately led to the Decembrist Revolt. The Decembrist Revolt, although a futile attempt to abolish serfdom and the......

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