Scramble for Africa
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Causes for Scramble
Raw materials= £££
e.g. gold, diamond, rubber, ivory
‘Empire-building’
land=power
more land= greatest influence
Spread Christianity
‘civilise’
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Berlin Conference
1884
European countries divide African land amongst themselves
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What does GB gain?
32%
16 areas
e.g. Sudan, Nigeria, N+S Rhodesia
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Consequences for African indigenous
Difficult to fight back
Europeans have better guns(Maxim gun- machine) vs. Africans fight with spears and swords
starved, killed, enslaved
forced to work in plantations and mines
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