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African Topographical Map: Locate the East African Rift Valley What region of Africa do you think Rwanda belongs

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African Topographical Map: Locate the East African Rift Valley What region of Africa do you think Rwanda belongs

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    1. African Topographical Map: Locate the East African Rift Valley What region of Africa do you think Rwanda belongs?

    2. Bantu Migrations The Khoisan, the Twa (pygmy, Hutus, the Tutsis

    3. European Hegemony What other world empires were imperialistic in 1900?

    4. Historical African Kingdoms before the Europeans Zanzibar, Mali, & Zimbabwe

    5. The European “Scramble for Africa” The British Colonial Empire dominated world commerce, David Livingston’s philosophy The “White Man’s Burden” = The Anglo–Saxon mission to “civilize” the world.

    6. Bismarck & The Berlin Conference – 1884 Prussia was instrumental in uniting the German states under many chauvinistic concepts, one referred to as Lebensraum – a term which translates as the space required for life, growth or activity. European expansion for natural resources & subjects. European Colonial Borders: Indigenous African Borders

    7. European Imperialists carved up the African Continent: The Colonial governments had no regard for the indigenous borders The German Kaiser, who was related to Britain’s Queen Victoria, became angry when he learned that Britain had acquired Africa’s two largest peaks. These volcanic mountains have alpine glaciers located at their summits They exceed 17,000 feet and straddle equator in tropical East Africa Victoria had the borders redrawn between the two peaks Mount Kilimanjaro is located in German East Africa, which is now Tanzania Mount Kenya is located in British East Africa which is now Kenya

    8. The European “Scramble for Africa” The British Colonial Empire dominated world commerce, David Livingston’s philosophy The “White Man’s Burden” = The Anglo–Saxon mission to “civilize” the world.

    9. European Colonialists Empowered Specific Groups for their own Maintenance of Control

    10. African Languages & Religions

    11. East Africa: Beautiful Lush Landscape Great Rift Valley, Great Lakes, & Source of Nile

    12. African Population Map: Rwanda is rural with high population density

    13. Rwandan Migrations Rwanda & Burundi German East Africa (1880) The Belgian Congo (1915) The Great Lakes Region East Central Africa Lingua Franca (French) Roman Catholic Majority Hutus 85% of Population Farmers Chad 1000 CE Tutsis 15 % of Population Pastoralists from Sudan Tutsi empowerment Racial ID Cards Educated & Govt. Jobs

    14. Rwanda How many people were massacred in Rwanda? Who was massacred? Name the murderers? What colonial power influenced the conflict? Explain their national differences & hatred?

    15. UN Peace Conference Hotel Milles de Collinnes Thousand Hills (French) Sabena owned hotel Kigali, Rwanda Plane shot down in Kigali April 6, 1994 Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi assassinated? Both Hutus 800,000 dead in 3 days! Tutsis & Moderate Hutus chopped to death by Hutu Hutu Militias NOT Hutu Army Chinese Machetes sold for $0.10 per unit to war lord merchant Militia men purchased for $0.50 Bullets more expensive

    16. Rwandan Genocide: Retribution & the Hutu Refugee Camp in the Congo

    17. Globalization amid Diversity

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