Scramble for Africa
Storyboard Description
History timeline of Imperialism and age of imperialism - Scramble for Africa. Imperialist states vie for control over parts of Africa.
Texte du Storyboard
- David Livingstone
- Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
- The Scramble for Africa
- After Dr. David Livingstone disappeared into the Congo for several years, an American reporter, Henry Stanley, went to track him down. The story sparked widespread interest in Africa.
- The Belgian Congo
- European Advantages
- Steam Engine
- Maxim Machine Gun
- King Leopold II hired Stanley to help him acquire lands in the Congo. The colony, the Belgian Congo, brutally exploited locals as labor to collect rubber sap.
- Rubber is money! We need more! Your life depends on it!
- European imperialists had a number of advantages that allowed them to penetrate into Africa and create colonies.
- Anti-Malarial drugs
- Berlin Conference
- Ethiopian Resistance
- In order to prevent conflict over African colonies, European leaders met in Berlin to decide where and how colonies should be established. No Africans were invited.
- Ethiopia defeated an invading Italian force at the Battle of Adwa. By 1914, only two nations remained independent: Liberia and Ethiopia.
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- Africa: 100 km and 200 km Coastal Zones - SEDACMaps - (Licence Attribution )
- Ethiopia Grunge Flag - Free Grunge Textures - www.freestock.ca - (Licence Attribution )
- Harar rain coming (Ethiopia) - Ahron de Leeuw - (Licence Attribution )
- Image taken from page 30 of 'British Possessions and Colonies. [With maps.]' - The British Library - (Licence No known copyright restrictions )
- Image taken from page 391 of 'The Development of Africa ... Illustrated with a set of ... maps ... designed by E. G. Ravenstein' - The British Library - (Licence No known copyright restrictions )
- Maxim machine gun - quinet - (Licence Attribution )
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