REVIEW SHEET FOR IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA
PEOPLE
Otto von Bismarck – called for the Berlin Conference to divide up
Africa among European powers to settle land disputes
Shaka – Leader of the Zulu Tribe; fought Boer and British to control
land; caused the Mfecane
Mungo Park – explored the Niger River
Rene Caillie – first to cross the Sahara; search for Timbuktu
Richard Burton – searched for the source of the Nile with Speke;
studied the Nile from the east coast
John Hanning Speke – searched for source of the Nile; declared Lake
Victoria the source of the Nile
David Livingstone – explored the interior of Africa; discovered
Victoria Falls
Cecil Rhodes – British miner and millionaire; controlled most of world’s
diamond output; started scholarship
TERMS
Apartheid – separation of the races; South Africa
Nationalism – pride in ones country
Imperialism – a nation’s desire to control other lands; changed the history
of Africa
Berlin Conference – settle African land disputes; no African groups
were invited
Boer – Dutch settlers in South Africa; fought British and Zulu for land
Zulu – African tribe; fought British and the Boers who wanted to defeat
them
Great Trek – Boer did not want to live under British rule so they went
into the interior of Africa; brought them closer to Zulu; caused wars
Orange Free State/Transvaal – Boer’s independent republics on Zulu land
Mfecane – the crushing; refers to the period of Zulu warfare and
migration under the leadership of Shaka; millions died
Boer War – between the British and the Boers; wanted land containing
gold and diamonds; British created the Union of South Africa only
whites could vote
Lake Victoria – source of the Nile
Timbuktu - famed trade city in Northern Africa; not visited by
Europeans prior to 1900s
Matching on the test 1. European nations to the regions colonized
2. Explorer to the lands explored
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