SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA: 1880s-WWI

MOTIVESGerman official to potential

European rivals: “We do not want to put anyone in the shade, but we also demand our place in the sun.”

Mercantilism

TOOLS Steamship Railroad Medical advances Weapons from Industrial Revolution

Berlin Act of 1885“All the powers exercising sovereign rights or influence in the aforesaid territories shall…aim at instructing the natives and bringing home to them the blessings of civilization.”

JUSTIFICATION“I contend that we (British) are the first

race in the world, and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race… It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon (British) race, more of the best, the most human, most honourable race the world possesses.”

-Cecil Rhodes

CONGO CASE STUDY: KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM

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RUBBER CULTIVATION

Mankind excerpthttp://www.history.com/shows/mankind-decoded/videos/vulcanized-rubber#vulcanized-rubber