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Africa's Second Imperial Wave
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on August 19, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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East, strategic, Berlin, Suez, colonists, African, discovery, cartography, Scramble, Senegal, missionaries, Rhodes, Raj, uplifted, legend, braided, Mediterranean, unknown, steam, Schweinfurth, Livingston, Afro, Portuguese, slaves, Indianized, engineering,
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the          Canal
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plowed through the land to connect the                            to the Indian Ocean
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transformed the relationship between the continents of         -Eurasia
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until the            most of European interests in Africa were restricted to the coast
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relied on indigenous polities and                  princes
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to harness the             
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to bring slaves to the coast to trade them with European 8traders                                                                                          
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the relationship with Africa was restricted mainly to trading
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exception was Southern Africa
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European settlers had established colonies here in earlier centuries
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19th century Europe sought to turn Africa inside out
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its interior was largely                to Europeans
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largely disinterested
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           and transportation changed this
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the Suez Canal was a victory of                        science
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it gave way to dreams of turning the Sahara desert into a paradise
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                         also active in Africa
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Africa represented a new religious frontier
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science and culture combined to create an idea of up-lift
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the poor could be                  from their squalor
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David                      (1813-1873)
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represented this ethos
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               roles
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Scottish explorer
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missionary
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scientist
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geographer
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funded by the Royal Geographical Society
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published an article in 1884 called "The                  for Africa"
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decided to explore the upper Nile territory
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was a living             
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death was a state funeral
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pioneered geographic expeditions laced with a missionary purpose
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into the interior of Africa
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uncorked a process of                   
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1885 Mapping Africa in             
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Germany had become interested in Africa
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had created an office in           
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George                         
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advocate of German expansion into Africa
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Africa is science's principle task
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Germans were at the forefront of the                       
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1876 Belgium
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King                organized a conference
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scientific elites
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how best to explore the interior of Africa
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Britain's delegation was the largest
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                     held a conference on Africa as well
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         Berlin Conference
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for statesmen
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draft up a set up rules on how to approach and carve up Africa
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no                present
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the lines they made sliced through ecosystems, languages,                   
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Gambia (British) was a river and                (French) around it
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based on where the European powers had commercial or military                    interests
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people making great fortunes in this process
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Cecil              (1853-1902)
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Africa was also                     
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the British increasingly used laws which they had developed in India
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the institutions of the       
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repurposed and adapted
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not just the administrators form India who were redeployed
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by colonizing Africa, it was brought in closer proximity to India itself
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professionals moved to Africa
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increasingly created new trade relations
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in some areas more Indian                    than British
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especially in South Africa, Indians were a            force
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many Indians moved to Africa
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plantations and mines after slavery was abolished in         
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many Indians began working in near-slave conditions
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one of the biggest projects was for the                railroads
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to connect the landlocked country so that it could trade with India
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which opened the interior of          Africa to the Indian Ocean
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officials were brought in from India
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traders
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workers
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one half of the British army was from India
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played a role in putting down resistance against the British
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created ongoing tensions between the African population and the Indian                    population

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