Before we can define the impact of the three Atlantic revolutions on Africa, it is necessary to look back at the decade preceding the American Revolution and discuss what led. History provides significant indicators that future wars and the oppression of a vulnerable people often lead to nationalism and democracy in the 19th century and beyond. European monarchs would lose much of their territories around the world, starting in the 18th century. England would control the gates of world trade, leading it to a dominated and peaceful Victorian era. We must study the seeds of the Revolution of 1763, the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution to fully understand their impact. The year 1763 AD brought an end to the tumultuous world war between the great European monarchs. The aftermath of this Seven Years' War became the dominant theme of 1763. A world war is "a war in which all or most of the principal nations of the world are engaged." (Merriam-Webster, 2006). The Seven Years' War involved Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal of Europe, who were the dominant world powers on land and sea. The conflict between neighbors would span across the globe to four of the five remaining inhabited continents. Many other governments joined this global conflict, including Prussia, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Hanover, the Iroquois Confederacy of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Hesse-Kassel, Schaumburg-Lippe, and Bengal Subah. This long list of participants does not include the indigenous population of the Americas or the settlers who were well on their way “to forming a more perfect union.” The birth of a new nation was near in 1763 as the Crown drew up legislation to control its rebellion...... middle of paper ...... ation in Africa was just another form of absolutism and the indication of world history, particularly the Atlantic revolutions, should have warned them that black people would rise up and own their freedom on the African continent. Western revolutions only liberated black people outside the African continent. Africa was put in a physical vise under white domination until the 1990s. The end of apartheid does not mean the end of the march towards freedom. Africa still needs to be economically liberated, so that it can control its own destiny and cultivate its own future. Works Cited Adhikari, M. (2009). Overwhelmed by race. Cape Town: UCT Press. Calloway, C.G. (2006). The scratch of a pen: 1763 and the transformation of North America. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Merriam Webster. (2006). Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus. Springfield: Merriam-Webster Incorporated.