In the aftermath of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the creation of a state of Germany, French political theorist Gabriel Hanotaux rejected claims that the era of imperial dominance of the Latin peoples and the French in particular, was over and that the new era was one of imperial dominance of the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Slavic peoples.[9] Hanotaux claimed that the Latin peoples had an imperial role to play in colonization of Africa, and claimed that Latin peoples' imperial holdings should include Africa and South America while the Anglo-Saxon people's imperial holding would be North America, the Germanic peoples' would be Central Europe, and the Slavic peoples' would be Siberia.[10]