The key players and how they shaped colonization
History and Citizenship · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
The individuals, companies and states that determined how Africa was colonised - and those who resisted.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 2 practice tasks with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- The scramble and the Berlin Conference
- The key players and how they shaped colonization
- Why Africa was colonised, and why it had to end
- Africa before the scramble
- Bismarck and the Berlin Conference
- Effective occupation and the race it started
- The economic engine of colonisation
- How colonisation was actually carried out
- African responses to colonisation
- Why colonialism was unfair to Africans