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Why was the 20th Century so Deadly?
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Although there were many wars in the nineteenth century, they usually took place in the colonies that the British, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Belgians occupied against the wishes of their populations. Sometimes war broke out because powerful European governments forced other countries to co-operate with them for economic reasons. This was known as ‘gunboat diplomacy’. These colonial wars were usually one-sided because Western powers had the advantage of technologically advanced weapons used against people defending their lands with swords, spears and pistols.
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