Question

How were urbanisation patterns during the colonial period different from the pre colonial period?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

From the World War-I to World War-II is called as colonial period and from 19th century to the World War-I is considered as the pre-colonial period.

During pre-colonial period, you can find the direct contacts between the European cities and they used to operate the port cities.

There are huge differences of urbanization patterns that are found between these two periods and you can modern machineries related to industrial revolutions are made during the colonial period, not during the pre-colonial period.