THE PARTITION OF AFRICA
9.2 Notes
Africa in the Early 1800’s
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Africa is 3x size of
Europe
People speak 100’s of
languages
Varied governments
and ways of life
Islam was a strong
force in much of the
continent
II. European Contact Increases
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Explorers map Africa’s
interior
Missionaries follow
explorers
 Built
churches, schools
and hospitals
 Paternalistic viewseeing Africans as
children
III. A Scramble for Colonies
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King Leopold II of Belgium
hired Henry Stanley arrange
trade treaties with the Congo
This set of a scramble for
Africa
Leopold II
Berlin Conference
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No Africans invited
About rules on colonizing
Africa
Had to set up a government
office there
Next 20 years Africa almost
all split up by Europeans
THE NEW IMPERIALISM: SECTION 2
The Scramble for Africa
III. A Scramble for Colonies cont.
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Horrors in CongoBelgian overseers
brutalize villagers
 Force them to work for
nothing
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France Extends Influence
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Took Algeria and West
Africa
Britain
Took large but scattered
portions
 Fought the Boers in a
guerilla war
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IV. Africans Resist Imperialism
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Africans fought back in
a series of bloody wars
Samori Toure fought the
French
Ethiopia managed to
resist colonization
Menelik II King of
Samori Toure
Ethiopia managed to
modernize his country
 Italy was defeated when
they invaded
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Menelik II
Questions
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What set off the scramble for Africa?
Why do you think Africans were not invited to the
Berlin Conference?
How did Menilik II preserve Ethiopian
Independence?
How might the division of Africa by the Europeans
affect Africa? What if it was Europe that was
randomly divided what problems might there be?