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    The Scramble for Africa was the invasion and colonization of most of Africa among seven Western European powers during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914)...
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  • The Scramble for Africa, 1876–1912 or The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912, is a comprehensive history...
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    The Scramble for China, also known as the Partition of China or the Scramble for Concessions, was a concept that existed during the late 1890s in Europe...
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  • parlance of colonialism in Africa usually focuses on the European conquests of the New Imperialism and Scramble for Africa (1884–1914), followed by gradual...
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    (2005). History of Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-59957-0. Southall, Roger; Melber, Henning (2009). A New Scramble For Africa?: Imperialism, Investment...
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    The General Act of Berlin can be seen as the formalisation of the Scramble for Africa that was already in full swing. Some scholars, however, warn against...
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    Mali. However, the French and British continued to advance in the Scramble for Africa, subjugating kingdom after kingdom. With the fall of Samory Ture's...
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    of Africa developed rapidly from around 10% of the continent being under European imperial control to over 90% as a result of the Scramble for Africa (1881–1914)...
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    annexing other parts of the world. 19th century episodes included the "Scramble for Africa." In the 1970s British historians John Gallagher (1919–1980) and...
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    Liberia (redirect from LIBERIA, West Africa)
    colonial "Scramble for Africa"; following the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and subsequent annexation of Ethiopia by Italy in 1936, Liberia became Africa's only...
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    consisted of the Scramble for Africa regulated by the terms of the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885. The conference effectively divided Africa among the European...
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  • of Africa Scramble for Africa Pink Map Portuguese Colonial War This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Portuguese Africa. If...
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    East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical...
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    "Decolonization in Portuguese Africa." in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Pakenham, Thomas, The Scramble for Africa, Abacus, 1991 ISBN 0-349-10449-2...
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    and Japan, and territory in Southeast Asia. The "Great Game" and "Scramble for Africa" also ensued. The period of relative peace (1815–1914) during which...
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    converting prominent local leaders to Catholicism. During and after the Scramble for Africa, late in the 19th century, these Christian communities and others...
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    The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its...
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  • the continent. Instead, they carved the continent up between them, scrambling for control of as much territory as possible, and attempting to prevent...
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    of the colonial Scramble for Africa, the unexplored parts were now limited to what would turn out to be the Congo Basin and the African Great Lakes. This...
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    followed not long after. In the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s the Europeans started to colonise the inland of West Africa, they had previously mostly controlled...
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    leftover territory that was not yet conquered by Europeans in the Scramble for Africa, it managed to build the third-largest colonial empire at the time...
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    (1492–1556), as opposed to African territories acquired by Spain during the 19th and early 20th centuries in the Scramble for Africa. Historically, a distinction...
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    The Rhodes Colossus (category British colonisation in Africa)
    Scramble for Africa during the New Imperialism period, in which the European powers, beginning in 1884, expanded their colonial expansion in Africa by...
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    construct a colonial empire until the Scramble for Africa in 1884. Claiming much of the remaining uncolonized areas of Africa, Germany built the third-largest...
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    Harry Johnston (category Explorers of Africa)
    to the continent of Africa and was one of the key players in the Scramble for Africa that occurred at the end of the 19th century. Johnston was born at...
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    Eswatini (category Countries in Africa)
    unified; its boundaries were drawn up in 1881 in the midst of the Scramble for Africa. After the Second Boer War, the kingdom, under the name of Swaziland...
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    present-day Central African Republic. The European invasion of Central African territory began in the late 19th century during the Scramble for Africa. Europeans...
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  • Regarding Africa-Europe relations see: African military systems (1800–1900) Colonisation of Africa Scramble for Africa Decolonisation of Africa Economic...
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    This race has been referred to as the second Scramble for Africa. All reasons for this global scramble come from the reserves' economic benefits. Transportation...
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    Mali (category 1960 establishments in Africa)
    defeated the Songhai in 1591. In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan;...
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