Yes, if by Maya you mean mayans
I am going to assume here you are referring to the 'Scramble of Africa' that happened in the second half of the 19th century, as the European power did not really control the African regions before then.
The methods contexts did differ per colonising power and colonised region, but it boils down to the following factors:
- superior firepower, equipment and recourses; having better guns, armour, communication technology, and supply routes, made the Europeans a formidable enemy that the various tribes simply could not counter.
- co-opting the local elites; a tried and tested method for centuries, this has always been the way smart conquerers could maintain control over a region with minimal fuss and expenditur.
<span>- divide and conquer; conflict between the many tribes of Africa has been a constant for centuries in the continent. The Europeans could easily manipulate the various tribes against each other to prevent a unified resistance from rising up. </span>
<span>- a willingness to use extreme forms of terror; the Europeans might have been all high and mighty back home about their Enlightment and democracy, but in Africa they were more than willing to use forms of terror that would make most contemporary dictators feel a little uneasy. Case in point, the widespread killing and mutilation when quotas were not met in king Leopold II's Congo.</span>
The ancient people were moving west.
The bridge that you are referring to was called the Bering land bridge which is now the Bering Strait. During the Ice age, though this area was covered in ice which made the sea levels drop and emerged the land bridge, the land bridge was covered with grasses and low shrubs which provided food for the mammoth, horses, caribou, and bison. It is believed that the ancient people followed these grazing animals from beringia (which is now SIberia) and into America, they are believed to be the first inhabitants of America. Over time the weather got warmer and the glaciers started melting and the bridge started disappearing into what we now call the Bering strait this all happened about 11,600 years ago
The Hans dynasty retains centralized burueacracy and unified political system of the Quin but adopts and grafts upon this the Confucian view that government should be run by educated, ethnical men.
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