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ROHAN KAUL, JASON TEW Scramble for Africa
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Berlin Conference of 1884 1884 Called to negotiate questions Major western powers http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/0aa/e26/0aae26f0-070d- 4b15-89a8-670e43babf69
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Division of Africa Afterwards, it was divided up into 50 irregular countries. http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/262/268312/art/figur es/KISH_25_575.gif
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Influence Mainly from economic and military dominance Not a lot of alliances in Africa, so it was divide and conquer. http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/images/content_2/britis h_military_band_handover-ceremony_iraq.jpg
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Ethnocentrism The belief that one’s ethnicity is centrally important. Led to a civil war Mainly applies after the British had left. http://interculturaljournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ethnocentris m.jpg?w=297&h=349
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Europe’s reasons for controlling Africa Mainly for it’s natural resources. Imperialism Wanted to create a large overseas empire. http://www.vzg.ru/prod/prod06.jpg
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Citations Crowe, Sybil E. (1942). The Berlin West African Conference, 1884–1985. New York: Longmans, Green. ISBN 0837132878 (1981, New ed. edition).ISBN 0837132878 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
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