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The impact on Africa, and what Africa has done about it
History and Citizenship · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How industrialisation in Europe reshaped Africa, why it produced underdevelopment and conquest, and the measures taken in response.
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- 9 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
- Industrialisation in Britain and the United States
- The impact on Africa, and what Africa has done about it
- What the first industrial revolution was
- Why Britain went first
- Why the United States followed
- How the industrial revolution enabled colonisation
- How the industrial revolution underdeveloped Africa
- Measures, and a message for today