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Africa - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Slave Trade
        
        Slavery in Africa had been going on long before the Europeans arrived, however, slaves worked differently as they signed a contract for a fixed period of time where they worked with no freedom and after it expired they were normal citizens again, eventually Africa began trading slaves with European countries.
        
        After a while Belgium finally became owner of their first colony in Africa, other European countries wanted to join in on this and started fighting for European territories until eventually most of Africa was colonized.
  - - - Centralized Empires
        
        These were large empires that held a lot of power and had no separation of powers which led to being very centralized governments, most of them controlled trade through military power.
      - Centralized Small Kingdoms
        
        These are very similar to centralized empires but on a smaller scale, most of them were mostly city-states with large urban spaces, usually their kings had elites that protected and served them.
      - Decentralized Societes
        
        These were governments that were closer to tribes than actual governments, leaders were chosen for their reputation or through a council of elders and were usually very strong, these governments were very autonomous and isolated.
- - - - The fight over Africa
        
        After the conference of Berlin in 1884, Belgium rushed to get territories in Africa, in which later France, Britian, Spain and Germany
      - West Africa
        
        In 1874 the few regions located near the Gold Coast were colonized by Great Britain and establishing a protectorate in Nigeria, and later in 1900 France would colonize most of the West African kingdoms making it have the largest part of this region.
      - North Africa
      - Central Africa
        
        David Livingstone was one of the first explorers to bring Central Africa to the rest of Europe.
        When he died, Dr Stanley took the exploration and encouraged Belgium to take el Congo.
        During this occupation of King Leopold, ivory, rubber where taken and Natives Exploited. The estimated death toll during this occupation is from 1 to 15 million Africans. After news of these abuses and killings, Belgium ceded Congo in 1908
      - East Africa
        
        Africa an Britain both competed for this region.
      - South Africa
        
        This region was the one where European Prescence grew the fastest
        The Afrikaners, which were the descendants of the original Dutch settlers, Occupied Cape Town and the surrounding areas in the region of South Africa, However during the Napoleonic wars, The British seized the lands from the Dutch, and then encouraged their own settlers to go live in what they called Cape Colony
      - Boar Republics