Ultimately, European universities established the intellectual and academic traditions of university education worldwide; by the 19th century's end, the Humboldtian university model was established in Europe, the US, and Japan. In the Americas, first the Spanish, then the British, and then the French founded universities in the lands they had conquered early in the 16th century, meant to professionally educate their colonists and propagate monotheistic religion to establish formal, administrative rule of their American colonies; like-wise, the British in Canada, Australia, and the Cape Colony. Japan, the Near East, and Africa all had universities based on European models in the 19th century.
Ultimately, European universities created the intellectual and academic traditions of university education worldwide; by the end of the 19th century, the Humboldtian university model was established in Europe, the US, and Japan. In the Americas, initially Spanish, then British, and finally French founded universities in lands they conquered early in the 16th century, aimed at professionally educating colonists and spreading monotheistic religion to establish formal administrative rule over their American colonies; similarly, the British in Canada, Australia, and the Cape Colony. Japan, the Near East, and Africa had universities based on European models in the 19th century.