Why was imperialism developed in Africa?
Imperialism means one country’s domination of the political, economic and social life of another country. The imperialism of the 1800s was caused by three main factors: nationalism, religious fervor and feelings of racial superiority and finally the industrial revolution.
These three factors influenced in the appearance of imperialism in Africa, all the European powers entered in a great competition of Empires, all of them were looking to be the most powerful and strong one.
For these, all these powers had to control more lands and with that to gain new natural resources and raw materials to produce products and enforce their economy.
When the first European explorers were sent to Africa they immediately found out the African land’s richness. When this great news reached Europeans, a huge interest in Africa appeared and after some confirming reports about the land’s abundance of resources a mad scramble for the lands was set.
For the European benefit, Africa had weak governments and taking control of the territories was not a difficult job.
In 1885, 14 nations met in Germany and agree to partition, King Leopold II of Belgium called ``this magnificent African cake´´. By 1914 European nations controlled 90 percent of the continent. This foreign nations were so greed of power that they did not conformed with being a wealthy country with enough lands, resources and a good economy but wanted to transform in a global power better than any other empire and impose not only their rule over other territories but also their culture, way of thinking and religion. For the wealth and convenience of Europe, Africa was not prepared in any aspect to avoid European dominance over their lands and make them all their conquering processes easier. At the end Africa’s resources were completely exploded by the foreign powers, which grew richer and powerful, while them got weaker and poorer.
Imperialism means one country’s domination of the political, economic and social life of another country. The imperialism of the 1800s was caused by three main factors: nationalism, religious fervor and feelings of racial superiority and finally the industrial revolution.
These three factors influenced in the appearance of imperialism in Africa, all the European powers entered in a great competition of Empires, all of them were looking to be the most powerful and strong one.
For these, all these powers had to control more lands and with that to gain new natural resources and raw materials to produce products and enforce their economy.
When the first European explorers were sent to Africa they immediately found out the African land’s richness. When this great news reached Europeans, a huge interest in Africa appeared and after some confirming reports about the land’s abundance of resources a mad scramble for the lands was set.
For the European benefit, Africa had weak governments and taking control of the territories was not a difficult job.
In 1885, 14 nations met in Germany and agree to partition, King Leopold II of Belgium called ``this magnificent African cake´´. By 1914 European nations controlled 90 percent of the continent. This foreign nations were so greed of power that they did not conformed with being a wealthy country with enough lands, resources and a good economy but wanted to transform in a global power better than any other empire and impose not only their rule over other territories but also their culture, way of thinking and religion. For the wealth and convenience of Europe, Africa was not prepared in any aspect to avoid European dominance over their lands and make them all their conquering processes easier. At the end Africa’s resources were completely exploded by the foreign powers, which grew richer and powerful, while them got weaker and poorer.
Now we are going to show you a video that sintetizes European interest in Africa and also concludes the positive and negative effects that the arrival of the foreign powers to Africa . It is a video that other students made for a project and we think that it would help you to gei a global idea of what our blog is about.
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