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  • The Race for Africa

    The Race for Africa
    In the late 1800s, a “scramble for Africa” occurred. This was a time during which European countries were trying to take as much of Africa as they could for themselves. http://histclo.com/act/work/slave/ast/ast-atle.html

  • Great Trek of the Boers

    Great Trek of the Boers
    During the Napoleonic wars, the British established themselves in South Africa by taking control of Cape Town, which was originally founded by the Dutch. After the wars, the British encouraged settlers to come to what they called the Cape Colony http://histclo.com/act/work/slave/ast/ast-atle.html

  • European trade with Africa

    European trade with Africa
    The solid establishment of trading between Europe and Africa is a significant event because this is somewhat the beginning of what led up to the Berlin Conference. When Europe realized that Africa had plenty of natural resources, King Leopold II decided not to wait for those natural resources to be traded to them, but rather to divide Africa amongst the European nations and decrease the cost of transport back to their main land. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/imperialism.html

  • East India Company collapses

    East India Company collapses
    This is important because the British Raj was a very significant ruling system of India. Also, the East India Company, a major company at the time, collapsed because of the Enfield rifles that they produced. http://histclo.com/act/work/slave/ast/ast-atle.html

  • Leopold II

    Leopold II
    Leopold II for Belgium begins efforts to build a colony in Africa along the Congo River. He is connected to the Congo because he acquired that region as a personal holding (as opposed to a colony of the country of Belgium) and exploited it. http://histclo.com/act/work/slave/ast/ast-atle.html

  • Leopold's Rule

    Leopold's Rule
    During his rule, Leopold II exploited the Africans, treating them horribly in order to achieve maximum profit. Over 10 million Congo people died within a 23 year period due to explotation and disease as a result of Leopold's rule. http://histclo.com/act/work/slave/ast/ast-atle.html

  • Second Boer War

    Second Boer War
    The Boers declared war and attacked the British first at Natal and Cape Colony. This introduced Guerilla Warfare and the "Scorched Earth" policy. The British burned Boer farms, homes, and crops, poisoned wells, and took citizens to concentration, or refugee, camps with awful conditions. http://histclo.com/act/work/slave/ast/ast-atle.html