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the last quarter of a particular century was the period embracing the
scramble for Africa. It was a time that Europeans literally scrambled to
lay claim to every piece of territory in Africa.
● The century in which this occurred. Ans: the last quarter of the
NINETEENTH century was the period of embracing the scramble for
Africa.
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the European merchants began to gain control over the "trading systems"
of the African interior after the 'legitimate commerce' had some to
replace the Atlantic slave trade in the middle of the nineteenth century
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thus leading to subsequent changes.
● two of the changes that occurred Ans: two of the subsequent changes
that occurred were a dramatic rise in "legitimate" or commodity trade
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between Europe and Africa and a shift in interest in employing people
within the communities to work for them rather than exporting them as
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slaves.
(also the establishment of a number of small but permanent colonies
along the coasts by Europeans and the growing curiosity about the
interior of the continent)
the European merchants saw that if they should benefit at all and to
profit from the development of 'legitimate' commerce with Africa, then
they needed knowledge of three specific things in the continent.
● The three things they needed to have knowledge of Ans: they needed
knowledge of the TRANSPORT POTENTIAL of its great river system, the
NATURE of the raw materials which Africans had to sell, and of the main
centers of POPULATION which would form the new markets for European
goods.
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there were three factors that finally motivated Europeans, thus leading to
the Scramble for Africa.
● Examples of these factors Ans: first, was the discovery of the huge
quantities of untapped wealth and raw materials in the vast African
interior. second, was the discovery of huge quantities of diamonds and
gold in Southern African in the 1870s and 1880s. Third, was a rivalry
between European nations.
there was a twenty-year period after which the whole tone and tempo of
African-European contact relations changed dramatically, thus leading to
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colonization.
● The first decade and the last decade of this period, respectively Ans:
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first decade: 1890s
last decade: 1900s
there were two major differences among the European colonizers around
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organization and control, which were INDIRECT rule and DIRECT rule.
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● What each of them means Ans: in the indirect rule system, the colonial
government worked with the kings or the chiefs.
in the direct rule system, the government ruled directly through their
own white officials (without African chiefs and kings) and African
servants.
under the indirect rule, the chiefs were allowed to judge one kind of
dispute and try one specific case.
● The kind of dispute they judged,
● The kind of cases they could also try Ans: chiefs were allowed to judge
LOCAL civil disputes and try MINOR criminal cases.