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The Scramble for Africa (Europeans belief, advantages, reasons to find new…

- - - - Disease kept them out of Africa
  - - - Many people feared he was dead
        
        An American reporter found him
        
        He wrote a catchy headline of newspaper to catch people’s attention
- - - - Racism (one race is superior to others)
        
        Europeans believed that they were superior to other nations
  - - - Malaria (kept Europeans out of Africa)
        
        drug quinine (drug to cure malaria)
        
        Europeans wouldn’t afraid to went into Africa
  - - - Europeans searched for new markets, raw materials, rubber, and cash crop
        
        They wanted to add more lands to their control
  - - - These products displaced the food crops grown by farmers to feed their family
- - - - Zulu lost
        
        British took away their lands in South Africa
  - - - Boers’ commando raids & guerrilla tactics V.S British’s burning Boer farms and imprisoning women and children in disease-ridden concentration camps. Some South Africans were also involved in the war
        
        Britain finally won the war
        
        The Boer republics were joined into a self-governing Union of South Africa, which was controlled by the British
  - - - Boers moved north
        
        Boers fight against Zulu and other African groups