Berlin Conference 1884-85

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the boundary lines that eventually separated colonial territories were based on?

Europeans concerns not African history or culture therefore tribal lands were cut in half between two colonies controlled by different European nations or two tribal groups were unwillingly brought together under the same national rule this brought disruption of tradition tribal boundary lines which worked to Europeans advantage because it was difficult for the native Africans to organize and opposition within each colony and disrupted the culture

Berlin Conference (1884-1885)

German Chancellor Bismarck called the Berlin Conference on Africa in 1885 and 1886 in order to lay out the framework under which Africa would be occupied by the European nations in practice the division and occupation of Africa met resistance and require many years of effort

what was the purpose of Berlin Conference (1884-1885)?

Purpose was to set rules for establishing colonies in Africa among European nations. No African representatives were there.

Berlin Conference

The meeting of European imperialist powers to divide Africa among them A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa Conference that German chancellor Otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium.

because the Berlin Conference of 1884 encouraged colonialism solely based on ?

bargaining for political and economic advantage

withing three decades almost the entire continent of Africa was colonized by Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Belgium and?

only Ethiopia and Liberia remained independent of European rule by 1914

British was the only one that excerised indirect rule over Egypt unliek everyone else because ?

they had their hands full with the huge colony in India and massive spheres of influence in China and elsewhere


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