HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Because the Africans took partial control over Germany
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Because the Africans took partial control over Britain
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Because the Africans took partial control over Egypt
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Scramble for Africa is the name given to the way in which European countries brought nearly all of the African continent under their control as part of their separate empires. The Scramble for Africa began in the 1880s. By 1914 the only African countries not controlled by a European power were Liberia and Ethiopia.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Scramble for Africa refers to the period between roughly 1884 and 1914, when the European colonisers partitioned the – up to that point – largely unexplored African continent into protectorates, colonies and ‘free-trade areas’.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Scramble for Africa in the 1880s to 1900 was motivated by these ideas. Imperialist ambitions in Africa were boosted by the expansion of competitive trade in Europe. The main aim was to secure commercial and trade links with African societies and protect those links from other European competitors.