WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Technology such as steamships, medicine, and repeating firearms greatly aided European colonialism in Africa and Asia during the nineteenth century. These technological advances allowed them to maneuver their forces quickly and have the firepower to kill large numbers of people at little risk to themselves.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the main, Europeans wanted to extract natural resources that would help fuel Europe’s trade and industry. Some of the prime resources they stole from Africans included rubber, ivory, and copper from the Belgian Congo, cattle and diamonds in South Africa, and coffee in East Africa.

Detailed explanation-3: -For example, the steam engine was an important invention that led to other advancements such as the steamboat, steam train and railroad construction. These allowed the European powers the ability to trek further and faster into the African interior and were major aspects of the Scramble for Africa.

Detailed explanation-4: -As Daniel Headrick amply demonstrated, advances in engineering and medical technologies as well as weaponry and transportation systems were a significant part of European efforts to establish colonial control on the continent.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Scramble for Africa, also called the Partition of Africa, the Conquest of Africa or the Rape of Africa, was the invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during an era known as New Imperialism (between 1833 and 1914).