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Imperialism in Africa - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Tribes, villages, empires and kingdoms
      - Different religions, traditions
      - 1000s of languages spoken
    - - They could fight against European armies
    - - Unpredictable rivers, long and thick jungles, general wildlife
      - This prevented the Europeans to go too far into Africa
  - - - Steam engine
        
        Used on boats allowed for Europeans to go deeper through the lakes
      - The Maxim gun
        
        The world's first automatic machine gun
        
        Allowed the Europeans to blow up the natives during wars.
- - - - In the late 1800s, Britain, France, Germany, and other European powers began to compete for African territories.
        
        -Within about 20 years, the Europeans had carved up the continent and dominated millions of Africans.
        
        -Although many resisted, Africans could not prevent European conquest of their territory.
        
        Some negative affects of Africa being divided is that Natives worked under the ruler of white foreigners that owned rich land and mineral resources barely gaining payment.
  - - - african regions varied in History and religion.
- - - - The Europeans took this as advantage and made deals with some of the leaders
    - - There was a massive drought in Africa and they weren’t able to grown many crops which led to the decline in crop production and was followed by the death of many people.
      - Europe also brought many decease like cattle plague which the resulted in many deaths of their farm animal and people. The African in system were not as effective at the europeans so they could easily get it.
- - - - politics
        
        ethnocentric
        
        culture
- - - - increased desire for markets for the abundance of goods supplied.