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27.1 THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA

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27.1 THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA

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  1. WORLD HISTORY II MR. HOOD`S NOTES OCTOBER 2014 27.1 THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA

  2. MAIN IDEA EMPIRE BUILDING. IGNORING THE CLAIMS OF AFRICAN ETHNIC GROUPS, KINGDOMS, AND CITY-STATES, EUROPEANS ESTABLISHED COLONIES.

  3. WHY IT MATTERS NOW AFRICAN NATIONS CONTINUE TO FEEL THE EFECTS OF THE COLONIAL PRESENCE MORE THAN 100 YEARS LATER.

  4. INTRODUCTION

  5. INDUSTRIALIZATION SPURRED IMPERIALISM

  6. IMPERIALISM IS…

  7. …A POLICY IN WHICH A STRONG NATION…

  8. …SEEKS TO DOMINATE WEAKER COUNTRIES…

  9. … POLITICALLY, SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY

  10. MANY EUROPEAN NATIONS LOOKED TO AFRICA

  11. OBJECTIVE 1 DESCRIBE AFRICA BEFORE EUROPEAN DOMINANCE.

  12. BEFORE IMPERIALISM

  13. AFRICA WAS DIVIDED 1000s OF DIFFERENT GROUPS + LANGUAGES

  14. THIS MEANT AFRICA WAS WEAK

  15. BUT EUROPEANS HAD PREVIOUSLEY FAILED TO ENTER AFRICA

  16. VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE: DANGEROUS GEOGRAPHY + DEADLY DISEASES

  17. UNTIL MODERN INVENTIONS HELPED THE EUROPEANS

  18. AND KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM SOON TOOK CONGO

  19. BELGIUM TOOK ALL OF CONGO`S RESOURCES

  20. LEOPOLD KILLED 10 MILLION CONGOLESE IN THE PROCESS

  21. LEOPOLD INSPIRED OTHER EUROPEANS TO IMPERIALISE

  22. OBJECTIVE 2 SUMMARIZE THE MOTIVES OF EUROPEAN COLONIZERS AND THE FACTORS THAT ALLOWED THEM TO CONTROL AFRICA.

  23. EUROPEAN NATIONS WANTED: TO CONTROL MORE LAND

  24. + NATURAL RESOURCES + NEW MARKETS

  25. BUT THERE WERE OTHER FORCES DRIVING IMPERIALISM

  26. EUROPEANS HAD A SENSE OF GREAT NATIONAL PRIDE

  27. AN EMPIRE MEASURED NATIONAL GREATNESS

  28. + MANY EUROPEANS THOUGHT THEY WERE BETTER THAN AFRICANS

  29. A BELIEF IN EUROPEAN SUPERIORITY

  30. THE BELIEF THAT ONE RACE IS SUPERIOR TO OTHERS IS CALLED RACISM

  31. THE ATTITUDE WAS A REFLECTION OF SOCIAL DARWINISM

  32. THOSE FITTEST FOR SURVIVAL ENJOYED WEALTH AND SUCCESS

  33. NON-EUROPEANS WERE CONSIDERED LOWER SCALE

  34. + EUROPEANS BELIEVED THEY HAD THE RIGHT AND THE DUTY TO…

  35. …BRING RESULTS OF THEIR PROGRESS TO OTHER COUNTRIES

  36. EUROPEANS TRIED TO “WESTERNIZE” THE PEOPLES OF FOREIGN LANDS

  37. ALSO, EUROPEANS HAD TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERIORITY

  38. THE SCRAMBLE BEGAN IN 1880

  39. NO EUROPEAN POWER WANTED TO BE LEFT OUT OF THE RACE

  40. COMPETION WAS FIERCE AND EUROPEANS FEARED WAR

  41. BERLIN CONFERENCE WAS CALLED 14 EUROPEAN NATIONS MET

  42. EUROPEAN NATIONS CARVED UP AFRICA

  43. WITH NO CONSIDERATION FOR THE AFRICANS

  44. OBJECTIVE 3 IDENTIFY THREE GROUPS THAT CLASHED IN SOUTH AFRICA.

  45. SOUTH AFRICA DEMONSTRATED IMPACT OF IMPERIALISM

  46. AFRICANS, DUTCH AND BRITISH CLASHED OVER LAND + RESOURCES

  47. DISPUTE OVER CONTROL OF LANDS FOR ABOUT 100 YEARS

  48. AFRICAN ZULUS LED BY SHAKA, HELD KINGDOM TOGETHER

  49. BUT HIS SUCCESSORS WERE UNABLE TO KEEP THE LAND

  50. ZULU`S LOST THEIR KINGDOM, FELL UNDER BRITISH CONTROL

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