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Suez Canal
Through 1845 to 1855 the Suez Canal was built by the Khedive of egypt and sudan as a way of faster trade and commerce from South Africa (Key Strategic Location for European powers). He ran into financial problems and was forced to sell his blocks of the canal. -
Africa before colonization
This is how Africa looked before the colonization of European powers. -
Colonization of the congo
Henry Morton Stanley was being secretly sent out by the king to colonize the congo as a major strategic point because of the minerals and dense forest they could be covered from enemy sight. Henry Morton Stanley (right) was the one to colonize the congo. 8 million of 16 million natives were killed in the colonization process. -
African territory before partition
Territory of africa before partition. -
Arrising problem for Native Africans
European settlers often abused Native Africans, and as a result, many conflicts broke out during colonization. This images shows hands being cut off becuase of the misdeadline of African slaves. -
Berlin conference to divide africa into states
The Berlin conference was the meeting that was held to regulate colonization in Africa. Germany, france, Portugal, and Berlin meet to discuss whether or not they want to divide Africa into states to avoid confrontation with non catholic locals. -
african territor after partition
This is the political division of Africa during the partition and as you can see, Great Britian (which controlled southern and northern Africa) and France ( which controlled northern/eastern Africa) are the main powers that occupied much of Africa. Other powers such as Portugal, Germany, and Italy occupied some bits of the continent. -
Africa, After World War I
After WWI, The majority of powers still held on onto their colonies but a few states gained independence from them. -
Africa's Language Groups
This is Africa's modern division of Language Groups, which has no major correspondents with the European powers that colonized the area. -
African States of Today
After colonization, to many other civil wars for independent states, Africa has finally seemed to be settled into individual states across the continent -
Africa's surplus supply of precious stones
This maps shows the denesity of diamond deposits which might have been one of the reasons why European powers wanted to colonize this area of land.
