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Why did Europeans first become interested in Africa?

• To discover platinum

• Trade routes

• To start slavery

• Because they thought Africa was nice

Imperialism is a system were a strong country takes wealth and raw materials from another country.

• False

• True

Nationalism is a strong sense of pride in one's nation.

• True

• False

Did any Africans attend the Berlin Conference? Was this fair?

• Yes; Yes

• Yes; No

• No; No

• No; Yes

At the Berlin Conference, the European leaders discussed Africa’s land and how it should be divided.

• True

• False

By the end of the meeting, European powers “owned” most of Africa and drew boundary lines that remained until 1814.

• True

• False

European powers organized Africa’s population in ways to make the most efficient workforce, ignoring the natives’ cultural groups or existing political leadership.

Was this for the Europeans' benefit or the Africans'?

• Africans

• Europeans

Africans were forced to work under terrible conditions on plantations, railways, and logging.

• True

• False

Africans were tired of being treated like second-class citizens on their own land.

They soon begin to demand freedom for themselves and the desire for independence spread across Africa.

• True

• False

The modern day political boundaries, civil wars, and conflicts found in Africa can often be traced back to which of the following event?

• A  European partitioning and colonization
• A  Ancient African trading empires
• A  European cooperation in the late 1800s
• A  Asian invasions in the 1800s