Industrialization and new technologies gave Western European nations enormous power.
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Industrialization and new technologiesgave Western European nationsenormous power.
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Increasingly, Western European
nations began to use their power to extend control
over foreign lands.
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European nations wanted raw materials for their factories and markets for their manufactured products.
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It was the Age of Imperialism. Imperialism is the policy of extending a nation’s political and economic control over a territory.
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By the late 1800s and early 1900s, European expansion had reached its peak.
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Representatives of
European nations would
actually meet to
decide how Africa should be divided.
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The Berlin Conference occurred between 1884 and 1885. It set the rules for dividing Africa.
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In order to claim land in Africa, a country had to first make a formal announcement of its intentions.
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Then the country had to send troops and officials to occupy the land.
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Of course, these kinds of rules
led to a “Scramble for
Africa” as European nations raced
to conquer and colonize
land in Africa.
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And of course, we must remember that no Africans were present at the Berlin Conference when Europeans decided the fate of the African continent.
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The new colonial
boundariesdid not respecttribal
locations or
rivalries.
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The grouping of diverse and sometimes rival ethnic groups together would lead to one of the causes of civil wars in Africa today.
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While Europeans built railroads and telegraphs to unite their territories and extract their resources, they also brutally exploited Africans and disregarded African traditions.
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European imperialism benefitted Europeans but harmed Africans.