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Good Afternoo
n1. Write down
your EQ and homework for today.
SPONGESPONGE
Analyze the Political Cartoon. What do you think it means?
#1. What trends do you notice by looking at the timeline? (What countries were really powerful in the beginning in exploration and what countries were powerful at the end?)
#2. Based on the information in your timeline, make a hypothesis of which nation was the most powerful at the end of the “Age of Exploration.”
questions to answer
Colonialism and AfricaWorld Studies
Political Cartoon
What is being depicted in this political cartoon?
Who are the people involved and what do they represent?
Political Cartoon
What is being depicted in this political cartoon?
Who are the people involved and what do they represent?
Slave Trade
Slave Transportation
Colonialism
Why would the Europeans want their land too??
Industrial Revolution = more raw materials…… Africa has them!!
Inventions increased the speed of making goods
Little was known about the interior of Africa
Missionaries went to Africa to convert Africans to Christianity… often resulting in destroying African traditions.
Discoveries of interior Africa by Europeans such as David Livingstone and Cecil Rhodes
Competition for Africa Each nation wanted
the biggest or richest colonies and control of trade
To prevent war, the Berlin Conference took place in 1884
Discussed how to divide Africa without consulting Africans
By 1912, all of Africa was colonized except for Ethiopia and Liberia
Impact of Colonial Rule Europeans only cared about
gold, diamonds, and other resources
Europeans looked down on African culture as inferior
Worsened conflicts between ethnic groups-Why?
In Rwanda, Belgians established a system where people were to carry identity cards
Hutu and Tutsi Belgians decided anyone who
owned more than 10 cows was a Tutsi and got special treatment
Hutus were resentful and led a massacre and civil war in 1994
Scramble for Africa!
Political Cartoon
What is being depicted in this political cartoon?
Who are the people involved and what do they represent?
British Empire- 1920
French Empire in
Asia
