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Colonial Europe's Misconceptions of the African Continent and Society. Africa was one country, not a collection of independent statesAfrican society was not organized nor advanced socially or technologicallyAfricans were little more than uncivilized barbarians Africans were non-religious heathens
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1. The Colonization Of Africa Examining European colonization and its impact on the Continent of Africa and its people
2. Colonial Europe’s Misconceptions of the African Continent and Society Africa was one country, not a collection of independent states
African society was not organized nor advanced socially or technologically
Africans were little more than uncivilized barbarians
Africans were non-religious heathens
There was no social structure to pre-colonial African society
Colonization was for the good of the Africans and the continent as a whole
Africa on the whole was an uninhabited, inhospitable place (The “Virgin Myth”).
The “taking” of Africa was going to be an easy process with few consequences for Europeans
3. Pre-Colonial Africa Map