"The Scramble for Africa"

Since Europeans believed they were the best race in the world they believed that they could take over any country they wanted to. The continent of Africa was under the control of Europe the greatest. The scramble for Africa was the ruling of areas of Africa by European nations. It was a time of imperialism of Europe ruling over Africa. Europe's imperialism over Africa happened between 1880 and 1910. There were many European nations that controlled areas of Africa. Major European nation's that had control of areas in Africa were France, Britain, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Spain. They would take control and rule these areas for the natural resources found in these area since Africa was rich in resources. They would use these natural resources to make new manufacture goods for the people of Europe and also to sell to the people of Africa. They would also send these new resources back to Europe to become goods for the people. Theses nations would also take control of the areas because the more land they controlled the more power they had. They would take control of these areas so that other nations of Europe wouldn't.European nations were able to take over Africa easily because of many reasons. Europe not only had their technological advantage but also there persuading on tribes of Africa to take control of their lands. Some tribes gave up their land by signing treaties which they had no idea what it said. Other tribes gave their land to nations of Europe so that other tribes of Europe wouldn't take over by force. The tribes also gave up their area's to the nations so that the Europeans could protect the tribe of that area from other tribes. The scramble for Africa had a negative affect towards the people of Africa. Tribes were divided because of the boundaries that the European nations did. They went through a phase of tribalism. The tribes would go to war with each other because they would be in the same boundaries and not like each other.