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African Colonization - Coggle Diagram
African Colonization
Reasons Europe wanted to expand (Causes)
ECONOMIC
need for raw materials
rubber
new markets
for the new products
invest in overseas
railroads, ports
POLITICAL
wanted:
bigger empire
more power
to be the best
prestige
for new Rivalries
SOCIAL
get the poor to other lands
GEOSTRATEGIC
to put obstacles for the rival power's expansions
facilitate communication
SCIENTIFIC
to discover unknown places
European superiority belief
evangelize non-Christians
expand Western culture
MILITAR
competition
military advantage
ships stop for supplies
strategic waterways
freedom to travel
Consequences
cultural
acculturation
politic
discrimination and death
irrational borders
First World War
takes to Nationalist Movements
economic
Poverty
Absence of industries of manufacture
Context
Africa
suffered
European imperialist aggression
diplomatic pressures
military invasions
eventual conquest and colonization
applied resistance against invadors
collapse of the economic benefit of the slave trade
expansion of the European Capitalist
Industrial Revolution
development of rairoads
generation of electrical power
European intrusion motivated by eonomy
What it was
invasion, colonization and annexation
of the African territory
by the European powers
during the New Imperialism period
1881-1914