R O H A N K A U L , J A S O N T E W

Berlin Conference of 1884
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1884
Called to negotiate questions
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Division of Africa
 Afterwards, it was divided up into 50 irregular countries.
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Influence
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Mainly from economic and military dominance
Not a lot of alliances in Africa, so it was divide and conquer.
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Ethnocentrism
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The belief that one’s ethnicity is centrally important.
Led to a civil war
Mainly applies after the British had left.
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Europe’s reasons for controlling Africa
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Mainly for it’s natural resources.
Imperialism
Wanted to create a large overseas empire.
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Citations
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Crowe, Sybil E. (1942). The Berlin West African
Conference, 1884–1985. New York: Longmans,
Green. ISBN 0837132878 (1981, New ed. edition).
Kevin Shillington, Encyclopedia of African history,
(CRC Press: 2005), p.1406.
R, Robinson, J.Gallagher and A. Denny, Africa and the Victorians, London, 1965, Page. 175.
Kevin Shillington, History of Africa: Revised Second
Edition, (New York: Macmillian Publishers Limited,
2005), 301