What was the SCRAMBLE for AFRICA? - KJ Vids

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The "scramble for Africa" refers to a period between the years 1881 and 1914.

During this time, European countries attempted to colonize Africa. By 1914, 90% of Africa was under European rule.

A lot of historians have credited the beginning of the scramble to
the Berlin Conference held in 1884.

The purpose of the conference was to control and regulate how the Europeans would conduct their trades in Africa.

Vast regions of Africa came under the sway of Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

Prior to the scramble of Africa, thePortuguese were the first to establishsignificant contact in West Africa.

The Portuguese established structures in the 15th century during a period known as the "Age of Discovery".

Europeans would seriously start the exploration and mapping of Africa towards the end of the 18th century.

Almost at the end of the 19th century, a map charting the entire course of the River Nile and other rivers was made.

The "The Long Depression" Europeans faced between 1873 and 1896 meant that many countries were crumbling.

As a result, Africa became an opportunity that could not be passed up as it provided an extra market for the struggling economies.

Superpowers like Great Britain were under massive pressure to ensure that lucrative and vital markets were under their control.

Africa had a vastness and magnitude of raw potential, including precious stones such as gold and diamonds.

Besides these two precious stones, the nations offered strategic access to the world through the sea.

In the years following World War 2 many countries in Africa began to assert their right to independent governance.

The 1950s and 1960s were a time when many African nations began to become "independent states" as known today.

The "independence" however has not taken away the system of Capitalism and the scramble for Africa remains.


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Thanks for this video! Im not even finished watching it and it gave me tons of info. The video my teacher gave me made no sense and i replayed it over and over and I wouldn't understand or get distracted lol

strawberry.kiss_
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great video man, it really helped me alot.

Adoune_React
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THE FIRST by the way great video it is nice that some one remembers us :D love from algeria

chadibn-based
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One of those images is a screenshot of age of empires II.

lucasgreer
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well we destroyed our planet, fought each other and history repeats itself like that

MerkurioBua
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The music was good, but it needs narration. Also, at the end, were those cocoa beans?

kevinlane
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I think it was important to put a figure on the millions forcefully taken into slavery (not sold), and the millions who died during the period of European control, including an estimated 10 million Congolese killed under the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. Numbers are important in order for people to grasp the scale of the atrocities.

picture-perfect
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libya tried to get out of this scrabbling system but west did not allowed

SaraanSarangi
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History it self repeated africa still under western influence .

mohamedshooqi