Definitions
A European country that has one or more colonies which they exploit for natural resources.
What is a mother country?
Why did Europeans build factories in Europe
They wanted to keep the colonies poor and reliant on the mother country
What languages were taught in Africa by Europeans?
English, French, and German.
Who drew the borders in Africa?
Europeans
Fill in the blank: Colonial powers group different people together that caused _____. An example of this is the Rwandan Genocide.
Conflict or wars
A country which is dominated by a European power and often exploited for its resources.
What is a colony?
Rubber, gold, diamonds, sugar cane, copper, coffee, cotton, tobacco, etc.
What are examples of Natural/raw materials exploited by Europeans?
What are Missionaries?
Religious members who taught Africans European values and language.
A meeting where Europeans divided Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
1850-1880
What is the period of intensive colonization?
Unequal treatment of an individual or group based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or physical appearances.
What is discrimination?
Why did Mother countries want raw materials?
To make manufactured goods to sell.
True or False: Europeans stole artifacts from their colonies in Africa.
True
Several African nations decided to work with their colonizers
What is collaboration?
What were the 3 main African societies before European colonization?
Arab societies, Nomadic societies of the Sahara, and the Mali Empire.
The process of a culture being absorbed by a dominant culture.
What is acculturation
To send goods (materials) to another country.
What is an Export?
Why did Europeans want to teach Africans their(European) culture?
Europeans believed they were culturally superior to Africans.
Conflict that resulted from many European countries fighting over Africa
World war 1
Who is credited with being the first European to navigate the interior of Africa
David Livingstone
A feeling of pride belonging to one's country
What is Nationalism?
Africans were used to extract raw materials often in horrendous conditions.
What is forced labour?
Africans' skin colour, lack of military technologies, and industry led Europeans to believe that they were_____to Africans.
What is superior?
The process of a country spreading its cultural, economic, and political influence over another country through force.
What is Imperialism?
What word means to separate from the mother country