JWST 1828 Lecture 1: Scramble for Africa
10 Mar 2017
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Spain, portugal, netherlands, belgium, england and france all had overseas empires in the 19th century. Germany, russia, austria-hungary were all continetial empires, meaning they owned no overseas territory. In 1884, the 2nd berlin congress divides up africa amongst these european powers. In 1870, only 10% of africa was under european control. By 1910, this was the result of the scramble for africa. By 1910, 90% of africa was under european control. As you can see, england and france own most of africa in 1910. Africa gets scrambled again after germany loses wwi, germany will lose their african controlled lands. Europeans colonized africa not only to take stuff (ports, resour(cid:272)es e(cid:454)tra(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:895) (cid:271)ut the(cid:455) also ga(cid:448)e stuff too (cid:894)the idea of the (cid:449)hite (cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:271)urde(cid:374)(cid:895). In 1894, germany claimed control over southwest africa. They start an uprising called the holtenlot uprising. German colonization was much different than english colonization. This policy basically said destroy the african colonies if there was any resistance.
