BERLIN CONFERENCE

• Also known as the Congo Conference
• Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa
• Coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power
• Ushered in a period of heightened colonial activity by European powers

EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM

• A period of colonial expansion
• Distinguished by an unprecedented pursuit of overseas territorial acquisitions
• Developed profitable industries which paved the way for industrialization
• The cost of African lives that were sacrificed for European industries

IMPERIALISTIC METHODS

• Using European administrators for direct colonial rule
• Ensured the most control for a nation-state
• Protectorate arrangement where a local colonial ruler and the government carried on as usual
• Colony would grant a European state certain economic privileges within its territory.

END OF COLONIALISM

LASTING EFFECTS