African Colonization
Published on Dec 26, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
BERLIN CONFERENCE
- Also known as the Congo Conference.
- Lasted from 1884-1885.
- King Leopold || was first to explore land.
- Henry Morton Stanley explored the land many other times between,
- 1878-1885.
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EUROPEAN IMPERIALISIM
- Africa had raw materials that could be manufactured and sold.
- Could control waterways due to large military force.
- Tried to spread western culture(Christianity) throughout the region.
- European nutrition and medicine increased life span of Africans.
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IMPERIALISTIC METHODS
- Methods include military force, transportation, and communication.
- Used technological and economic strategies to help bring them,
- into world economy as exporters of raw materials.
- Guns, steamboats, and medicine are key factors in conquest of Africa.
- Between 1815-1914, Europe increased its control over land mass by 50%.
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HOW COLONIALISM ENDED
- Smaller countries became independent countries and got stronger.
- End of 18th and early 19th century, decolonization started to occur.
- Scramble of Africa played big role in ending colonization.
- After WWII, colonization was scarce and disappearing rapidly.
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LASTING EFFECTS
- Injustice in African people causing civil wars.
- Racism occurred in Africa between different cultured people.
- Gave structured political system of government in some parts.
- Europeans brought industrialization along with them when in Africa.
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