History 12.2

Boer War

1899-1902) a war in which Great Britain defeated the Boers of South Africa

David Livingstone

Best known explorer and missionary

Henry Stanley

Journalist who trekked into Central Africa

King Leopold II

King of Belgium

Menelik II

Reforming ruler who began to modernize

What did a country have to do to obtain a colony?

Rich, wealth, natural resources

How did Africans resist Imperialism?

They united and fought off attacks

Describe the Berlin Conference.

he Berlin Conference of 1884-85 was a meeting between European nations to create rules on how to peacefully divide Africa among them for colonization. The conference was convened by Portugal but led by Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the newly united Germany. Though invited, the U.S. declined to participate. The resulting agreement, the General Act of the 1885 Conference of Berlin, banned the slave trade in name (though not in reality, especially in the Belgian-controlled Congo Free State) but otherwise encouraged European nations to aggressively colonize and exploit Africa's human and natural resources or to lose their claims under the Principle of Effectivity, which allowed signatories of the agreement to jump each other's claims if the claims were not being fully exploited.

paternalistic

the system of governing a country as a father would a child