AF Module 3:2 Flashcards
1
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Scramble for Africa
A
European countries worried that they wouldn’t be able to get a piece of that “magnificent African cake”
Europeans controlled 20% of Africa in 1880 and 90% by 1914, Ethiopia being the only independent one
2
Q
Attention to Slavery
A
Through Protestant missionaries, people learned of slave raids and suffering of Africans
Believed conquest would bring “commerce, Christianity, and civilization”