Enabling Factors
This drug helped Europeans enter Africa and stay healthy.
Quinine OR anti-malaria drug
The colonizers spread this religion in Africa.
Christianity
This imperial power colonized the largest population base in Africa.
Great Britain
This category of crops introduced by the colonizers (to satisfy demand back home) caused famine in Africa.
Cash crops OR Cocoa OR Cotton OR Rubber
The first British colony in Africa to win independence (in 1957).
Ghana
This technological advancement was the single biggest enabler of the European conquest of Africa.
The Maxim gun OR Guns
This man-made African waterway was the shortcut to Asia.
What is the Suez Canal?
The colonizers met in this city in 1884 to decide the fate of Africa.
Berlin, Germany
This imperial power had their people marry into African royal families to get land-grants and to take control of land.
Portuguese OR Portugal
The region of Africa coveted by King Leopold of Belgium with the words, "I want my share of this wonderful African cake".
The Congo Basin.
This European 'revolution' led to the 'scramble for Africa'.
The Industrial Revolution
This religion-defying scientific theory was distorted and used as a justification for subjugating the people of Africa.
Darwinism
This African country was one of three colonized by Italy.
Libya OR Eritrea OR Somaliland.
Indentured laborers from this British colony were forcefully brought to Africa which caused tension with the native population
India
The rule adopted by the colonial powers to avoid conflict with each other when invading Africa.
First come first serve.
European colonizers invested in this infrastructure to move products, food and people across and into Africa.
Railroads OR Steamboats
This is the economic and trade benefit that the Europeans hoped to get by colonizing Africa.
Trade surplus OR Cheap labor OR Natural resources
This African country stayed independent from colonial powers
Ethiopia OR Liberia
This colonial power exerted direct rule over their African colonies and offered citizenship to the natives who assimilated well.
France
Africa has been colonized this many times in history.
Three times.
The Europeans introduced this technology to dramatically speed the flow of information.
The Telegraph (and submarine cables)
These treasures were the main motivation for Portuguese imperialism.
Gold AND Diamonds
These two european colonial powers almost came to war during their early expansion into Africa with the Fashoda incident.
Great Britain and France
The greedy pursuit of this commodity by the king of Belgium led to the death of 10m congolese people.
Rubber
This modern era African genocide is attributed to the divide and rule strategy employed first by German and subsequently by Belgian rulers to sow distrust between two tribes.
Rwandan genocide. OR Tutsi massacre by Hutus