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The European colonizers benefited because they took all the resources and established monopolies over colonial trading. Those who didn't benefit were the colonies because they were being exploited in every way possible by the big European empires like Britain or Portugal or Spain.
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Songhai under Askia Muhammad <span>was a powerful trading empire that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean across much of West Africa.</span>
