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These two causes were to plunge Europe into many wars, and to vex and divide the peoples of every European country, throughout the period 1815-78.
Yet the period 1815-78 was to see an extension of European civilisation in the non-European world more remarkable than that of any previous age.
In the first place, during the period 1815-78 British influence and trade had been established in almost every part of Africa save the central ulterior, and no power had such definite relations with various native tribes, many of which desired to come under the protectorate of a power with whom the protection of native rights and customs was an established principle.
The tradition of protection of native rights, established during the period 1815-78, and the experience then acquired, stood the British in good stead.
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