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ROHAN KAUL, JASON TEW
Scramble for Africa
Berlin Conference of 1884
1884Called to negotiate questionsMajor western powers
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Division of Africa
Afterwards, it was divided up into 50 irregular countries.
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Influence
Mainly from economic and military dominance
Not a lot of alliances in Africa, so it was divide and conquer.
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Ethnocentrism
The belief that one’s ethnicity is centrally important.
Led to a civil warMainly applies after the British had left.
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Europe’s reasons for controlling Africa
Mainly for it’s natural resources.ImperialismWanted to create a large overseas empire.
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Citations
Crowe, Sybil E. (1942). The Berlin West African Conference, 1884–1985. New York: Longmans, Green. ISBN 0837132878 (1981, New ed. edition).
Kevin Shillington, Encyclopedia of African history, (CRC Press: 2005), p.1406.
R, Robinson, J.Gallagher and A. Denny, Africa and the Victorians, London, 1965, Page. 175.
Kevin Shillington, History of Africa: Revised Second Edition, (New York: Macmillian Publishers Limited, 2005), 301