1. Section 3: European Claims in Sub-Saharan Africa
CHAPTER 17
The Age of Imperialism
Section 1: The Roots of Western Imperialism
Section 2: European Claims in North Africa
Section 3: European Claims in Sub-Saharan Africa
Section 4: Expansion in Asia

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Formerly dealt in slaves
Late 19th century turned to trading feathers, ivory, and rubber

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France would fight Samory Toure for fifteen years for control of West Africa.
Britain would fight the Ashanti kingdom for the territory they would name the Gold Coast.
Liberia would be the only state to remain independent.

4. “Dr. Livingston, I presume?”
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Stanley & Livingston
1869 reporter Henry Stanley began his search for missing missionary Dr. David Livingston.
He found him in 1871.
“Dr. Livingston, I presume?”

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King Leopold II of Belgium would carve a personal colony of over 900,000 square miles.

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…also divided into colonies. …
Famine and rinderpest weakened any native resistance.
…outbreak in the 1890s killed 80 to 90 percent of all cattle in Southern Africa, as well as the Horn of Africa. Sir Arnold Theiler was instrumental in developing a vaccine that curbed the epidemic.

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European settlement began in 1652 with Dutch settlement of Cape Town… which would grow into Cape Colony.
…which the British will take over in the early 1800s.

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The Great Trek

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The Boers carved out three colonies -
Natal
Orange Free State
Transvaal

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Shaka ~ the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom.
The British would defeat the Zulu in 1879.

11. Cecil Rhodes would arrive in South Africa in 1870.
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The story of diamonds in South Africa begins between December 1866 and February 1867, when 15-year-old Erasmus Jacobs found a transparent stone on his father's farm, on the south bank of the Orange River. Over the next 15 years, South Africa yielded more diamonds than India had in over 2,000 years.
Cecil Rhodes would arrive in South Africa in 1870.

12. Cecil Rhodes SECTION 3 European Claims in Sub- Saharan Africa
Within twenty years, Rhodes completely controlled South African diamond production.
He would later organize a colony to the north ~ Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

13. The Boer War SECTION 3 European Claims in Sub- Saharan Africa
1895 ~ Rhodes tried to overthrow the Transvaal gov’t because the Boers had kept the British from opening mines.
1899 ~ The Boer War broke out.
After three horrible years, the British defeated the Boers.
1910 ~ united Cape Colony and the three Boer colonies into the Union of South Africa.
The new constitution made it almost impossible for non-whites to vote.
The beginning of apartheid.

14. Effects of Imperialism on Africa
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Effects of Imperialism on Africa
Paternalism
New crops & ways of farming
Western medicine
Roads and railroads were built.
Improved communications

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Italy would later try to invade Ethiopia …
… they would not be successful. Ethiopia would be the only African nation to remain independent.

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Assimilation: when people give up their own culture completely and adopt another culture.
The Africans did not accept European culture and would continue to live much as they had for centuries.