GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Millennium Development Goals, Berlin Conference, Sub-Saharan Africa

• School: York University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1000
• Professor: Peter Vandergeest

Document Summary

Part 1: early colonial interaction & colonization begins. Early colonial interaction first european to arrive, portuguese. In this uneven connection, the colonizer works to reshape the regional economy and politics of the colonized region to suit their own needs. Civilization /christianity (concept of othering) very large group of european missionaries to build churches to save their souls , feel africans are inferior and. Commerce: colonies = new markets, colonies = access to natural resources (their factories need raw materials to make manufactured goods, ambitious plans to colonize africa, imperial rivalries. British (cape to cairo and everything in between) This creates imperial rivalries, european countries fighting over african land. *slave trade happens before colonialism, europeans were never interested in bringing them to. Part 2: from the scramble for african to carving up the continent. Instead of going to war they had the berlin conference (1884) & the principle of.