DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST
DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN MIDDLE EAST
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Liberia and Ethiopia remained independent countries with sovereign governments.
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Colonial boundaries were drawn without regard to ethnic or language differences.
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No African leadership was invited to the conference to help draw colonial boundaries.
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European nations decided the fate of the Africa continent.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The major problem resulting from the Berlin Conference was the subjugation of previously free peoples across the African continent, many of whom faced discrimination and cultural genocide.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first was to recognize the territory that King Leopold claimed as his private property. The second was to recognize some existing territorial claims in different parts of Africa. The third, and most important, result of the conference was to set up a way for Europeans to claim and annex territory in Africa.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first effect of the conference was the domination of the majority of Africa by European powers for almost seventy years. Much of Africa did not gain independence until the period from 1955 to 1975. Another long-term effect of the conference is the problem of national borders.
Detailed explanation-4: -Negative Effects It partitioned/divided Africa among European nations. It led to the suffering of Africans as they were abused by colonial masters with many crushed to death after resisting colonialism e.g. in 1880’s-1890’s France began an aggressive colonization policy in West Africa.