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European Imperialism. Essential Question:. What have been the lasting effects of imperialism on Africa today?. European Exploration. European groups interested in Africa Missionaries Wanted to convert Africans to Christianity Merchants
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Essential Question: • What have been the lasting effects of imperialism on Africa today?
European Exploration • European groups interested in Africa • Missionaries • Wanted to convert Africans to Christianity • Merchants • Dreamed of fortunes to be made in the trading of African ivory, gold, and tropical trees
European Exploration-cont. • European groups interested in Africa • Industrial leaders • Wanted Africa’s natural resources • Needed raw materials for goods made • Needed new markets for their finished products • Political leaders • Saw oversees empires as a way to increase their popularity
Independent Africa • Parts of Africa remained independent after European colonization • Liberia • Home to freed slaves from America who went back to Africa • Ethiopia • Predominantly Christian country
Important People in European Imperialism • King Leopold • One of first Europeans to make a grab for Africa • Claimed Congo for himself • Rubber trees natural resource of Congo • Needed rubber for “boom” in bike and motor car industries
Important People in European Imperialism-cont. • David Livingstone • Missionary who wanted to help end slave trade • Searched for source of Nile • Henry Stanley • Explorer who claimed Congo for King Leopold of Belgium • Searched for source of Nile
Economic Changes in Africa • Economic changes caused by imperialism • Farm economy changes to cash crop economy • Change from growing crops to feed families to growing crops to export and to make profit
Economic Changes in Africa-cont. • Impact of economic changes on Africans • Hard for farmers feed families • Farmers’ land taxed • Forced to mine for natural resources help pay taxes • Weakened family because men spent months away from home to work in mine • Lasting effects of imperialism in Africa • Ethnic violence, racism
Berlin Conference • Purpose • Europeans meet to divide Africa and claim resources of continent for themselves • Factors considered/ignored • No Africans invited to conference • Ethnic groups were separated, enemies were brought together • Created new boundaries and borders on continent
Berlin Conference-cont. • Problems created • Ethnic groups/ethnic violence • Ethnic groups who hated each other for years brought together • Competing groups brought together
Berlin Conference-cont. • Problems created • Civil War • Conflicts between groups within a country • Assassinations • Genocide • When one group of people tries to eliminate another based on race, ethnicity, or political differences
Vocabulary • Colonialism/imperialism • Control of one country by another through economic, political, or military means • Cash crops • Crops grown for sale or export
EQ Answer • Lasting effects of European imperialism • Ethnic violence • Kenya • Rwanda • Cite of Civil War, assassinations, and genocide • Hutu and Tutsis People • Weak governments • Ethnic violence • Lack of experience in self-government • Corruption