The Scramble for Africa:Causes
Europeans wanted these, which where abundant in Africa's land.
What are natural resources?
This term refers to Africa's inability to rule itself
What is lack of autonomy?
The idea that Africa was an unknown region
What is the dark continent?
What is gold?
The largest desert in the continent that stretches across most of North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
This is the reason Europeans felt as though they were helping Africans out by colonizing them
What is converting to Christianity?
What is over-extraction of resources?
This aspect of the dark continent is especially relevant to the connotations of the word "dark"
What is racism?
This leader of the Mali Empire is known as the richest man in history.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This semi-arid region can be found between the savannas and deserts of the north.
What is the Sahel region?
The British kept this waterway under their control because of its key location for international trade.
What is the Suez Canal?
Caused by Europeans implanting their ideals and grouping many different tribes together.
What is loss of culture?
These are geographic factors contributing to a lack of knowledge about Africa
What is the Sahara/Rough jungle/unfriendly tribes
What is camel riding?
Country with the lowest life expectancy in Africa
This important innovation made it so the Europeans were actually capable of colonizing Africa
What is the machine gun/advanced weaponry?
A result of grouping many different people together who often had extremely different priorities and beliefs
What is civil war?
Europeans launched many of these in order to know more about Africa
What are expeditions?
Mansa Musa opened up many schools and universities across this major city in the Mali Empire
What is Timbuktu?
The tallest peak in Africa
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
Europeans wanted more of these in order to extend their trading empire.
What are port cities/maritime bases?
A common result of the power vacuum left by civil wars
What is an authoritarian regime?
What is advanced civilization?
Mansa Musa brought many of these back with him on his journey to Mecca
What are scholars/Architects/Artists
This commonly mined resource in Africa is used in phone batteries
What is coltan?