sentences:  The conquest of Ethiopia, which had remained the last African independent territory, had to wait till the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in 1935–36 (the First Italo-Ethiopian War in 1895–96 had ended in defeat for Italy).The Portuguese and Spanish colonial empire were smaller, mostly legacies of past colonization.Most of their colonies had acquired independence during the Latin American revolutions at the beginning of the 19th century.