European Motives
This natural fiber was Egypt’s top export and key to Europe’s textile industry.
What is cotton?
This British businessman cornered the diamond market in South Africa.
Who is Cecil Rhodes?
This city hosted the 1884–1885 conference that divided Africa among European powers.
What is Berlin?
Europeans forced Africans to grow these types of crops for export.
What are cash crops?
The British took control of southern Africa from this earlier European group.
Who are the Dutch (Boers)?
Europeans originally viewed Africa as a place for this type of profit-based activity.
What is trade and deal-making?
This Belgian king claimed the Congo and caused massive atrocities.
Who is King Leopold II?
The rule that coastal control gave rights to inland territory.
What is the effective occupation rule (or coastal rule)?
This phrase describes Britain’s attitude on the Gold Coast: “rule the country as if…”
What is “as if there were no inhabitants”?
These two African kingdoms fought to defend their lands from European settlers.
Who are the Xhosa and Zulu?
The building of this 1860s waterway boosted European access to Asia.
What is the Suez Canal?
The German chancellor who hosted the Berlin Conference.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
One moral “goal” of the Berlin Conference was to reduce this type of violence.
What is bloodshed/conflict?
Men were forced to leave home to work in these industries.
What are mining, construction, or plantation industries?
Cecil Rhodes believed the British were this kind of race.
What is the “finest” or “superior” race?
By 1879, Britain and France seized this Egyptian institution to control the economy.
What is the Egyptian treasury?
This group of Dutch descendants clashed with the British and African kingdoms in South Africa.
Who are the Boers?
This agreement drew borders that cut across these cultural divisions.
What are African ethnic and cultural boundaries?
The shift to cash crops caused a decline in this kind of farming.
What is subsistence agriculture (family farming)?
This valuable resource sparked a rush to claim South African territory in the 1870s.
What are diamonds?
Europe’s desire for new markets and raw materials reflected this late 19th-century global trend.
What is imperialism?
This philosophy, inspired by Darwin, was used to justify racism and conquest.
What is Social Darwinism?
The conference also banned this product and controlled the flow of arms.
What is alcohol?
The destruction of African political systems helped Europeans do this more easily.
What is maintain domination/control?
The phrase “from Cairo to Cape Town” referred to Britain’s goal of controlling this.
What is a continuous line of colonies across Africa?