IMPERIALISM AND COLONISM

BERLIN CONFERENCE

• Held in 1884-1885
• Was to lay down rules for dividing Africa
• No African ruler was invited to it
• Divided Africa without regard to ethnic and linguistic groups

EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM

• Ethiopia warded off any colonization from Europe, allowing freedom
• The king of Belgium wanted the Congo region in Africa
• Portugal established São Tomé off the coast of Gabon
• Most of central Africa was untouched until Belgium and France

IMPERIALISTIC METHODS

• Divided most lands in Berlin conference
• Took land by force by the new tech that massacred Africans
• Used natives to help mine for new minerals
• Sometimes ruled through already established kingdoms

END OF COLONISM

• Many rebellions took place and nations gained independance
• After WWll many natives were given independance
• Europe needed to regroup after the war, giving up control
• The colonies, sometimes threw countries in anarchy

LASTING EFFECTS

• Colonial boundaries wee translated into country borders
• Civil war in Sudan because of the different groups joined by the borders
• Genocide in Rwanda when one group hated the other that were once joined by borders
• Economies struggled because Of the loss of mother countries