European Imperial Conquest Of Africa Case Study

1) By the late 1800 century Europe countries including Germany, Great Britain France and Italy known as the superpowers had gained an immense amount of power because at the time they had colonized many states around the world and with no surprise they were greedy for more. The Europeans countries were in search of new land, wealth and the desire to explore the world. It was an attempt to expand and develop Europe’s Imperialism, however think that quickly escalated into a race to capture the most land and the superpowers set out to compete. One main interest for the Europeans was Africa. It became a target because the vast continent had so much to offer including gold, diamonds and endless territory in which the Europeans could establish
This shaped the world and allowed for the imperial conquest of Africa. The advancement in Medical science and the industrial revolution changed history and cleared the path for Europeans to conquer Africa. The European super powers invaded a weak and dysfunctional Africa and initiated the so called “scramble for Africa” it established a sort of competency to see which country could conquer the most land. The Europeans portioned the entire African continent to prevent conflict between the countries, on the other hand this would induce collision between the native African villages a extravagate example would be the Rwanda genocide because it shows the impact that European segregation inflicted. Different enemy tribes even though they knew it would bring more conflict within the native Africans. The Europeans had to consider that immense amount tension between the natives and they knew that segregating tribes around the region would cause chaos and bring a period of oppression and violence to the